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"Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings" by Joel Chandler Harris is a timeless collection of African American folktales that resonate with the charm and wisdom of the Deep South's oral tradition. Published in 1881, these tales are framed through the character of Uncle Remus, a wise and kindly old freedman who shares stories with children.
Harris's work captures the essence of plantation life and the rich oral history passed down through generations....
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Cass library of African studies. Travels and narratives volume no. 39
Publisher
Frank Cass & Co
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
x, 453 p. illus. map (part. col., fold) 22 cm.
Language
English
6) The Navy and the slave trade: the suppression of the African slave trade in the nineteenth century
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Cass library of African studies. Slavery volume no. 4
Publisher
Cass
Pub. Date
1968
Edition
1st ed., new impression.
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xiii, 314 p. 8 plates, illus., 2 maps. 23 cm.
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English
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Cass library of African studies. Travels and narratives volume no. 66
Publisher
F. Cass
Pub. Date
1970
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xxi, 174 p. 2 fold. maps. 23 cm.
Language
English
10) Angola
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Publisher
Praeger Publishers
Pub. Date
[1971]
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ix, 296 p. illus., maps, port. 23 cm.
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English
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Cass library of African studies. Slavery volume no. 10
Publisher
Cass
Pub. Date
1971
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viii, 77 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
12) Cane
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English
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"A powerful work of innovative fiction [made up of] sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life"--P. [4] of cover.
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The Story of an African Farm (1883) is a novel by South African political activist and writer Olive Schreiner. Her first published novel, The Story of an African Farm was a bestseller upon its release despite being criticized for its portrayal of controversial social, religious, and political themes. Part Bildungsroman, part philosophical fiction, the novel is recognized as a groundbreaking work for its exploration of feminism, atheism, and the influence...
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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama
“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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15) Songhay
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Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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English
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"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and not only corresponded with John Brown before the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, but was part of a group that supplied material aid to Brown. When the Civil War broke out, his reputation, enhanced by his impassioned articles about Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner in the Atlantic, made him...
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