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Chapter 3

Read by Jim Locke


W. L. Hunter


In Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins

This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …

Hattie Rogers

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Various


In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


In In Old Plantation Days

With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…

The epilogue

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


In The Lady's Mile

If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …

A Fragment

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Marie E. J. Pitt


In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses

Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…

Chapter V

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Emma Francis Brooke


In Transition

Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…

Chapter 12

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Talbot Baines Reed


In Cock-House at Fellsgarth

A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von

Chapter 49

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John Mcelroy


In Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

A comprehensive four-volume history of one soldier's 15 months in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The book is divided into 83 cha…