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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to Black Nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...
42) Collected works
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Library of America volume 39
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
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c1988
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English
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English
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Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army, speeches and articles outlining the history of civil rights and criticizing the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court opinions now widely cited in Constitutional law, a long and complete...
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The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters, soldiers who fought for the freedom of their brethren and for equal rights, and reporters who covered the defeat of their oppressors. These...
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Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives. They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the...
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Library of America volume 72
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
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1994
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English
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Library of America volume 15
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English
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone
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Library of America volume 333
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The Library of America
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[2020]
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English
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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
49) Works
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Library of America volume 55-56
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Library of America
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c1991
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English
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Library of America volume 29
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
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c1985
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English
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Library of America volume 104-105
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Distributed to the trade in the USA by Penguin Putnam
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c1998
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English
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Distributed by Viking Press
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c1982
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English
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This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, that prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career". These twelve poems,...
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Library of America volume 62-63
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
55) Later novels
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Library of America volume 49
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
56) Novels & stories
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Distributed to the trade by Viking Press
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c1982
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English
57) Complete novels
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Library of America volume 101
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Distributed by Penguin Putnam Inc
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1998
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English
59) Novels
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Literary Classics of the United States
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c1983
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English
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520 Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale...
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Library of America volume 69
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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