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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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Fall River Press
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[2015]
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English
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Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Before slavery was outlawed in the United States in 1865, most free Americans had little understanding of this brutal institution. One of the abolitionist movement s few tools for illustrating its horrors was the slave narrative. Memoirs written by former slaves...
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G&D Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A guide offers advice on achieving success in business and life. In his book, Proctor (It's Not About the Money, 2018) invites readers to imagine traveling around the world and talking to the wealthiest, happiest people. If they asked all these folks the same question -- what is the key to your success? -- their answers would always boil down to the same things. The author then asks: Wouldn't you like to know what those things are? Proctor lays out...
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