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The Facts of Reconstruction

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John R. Lynch

After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation

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Henry Watson Wilbur

A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude towar…

The Story of Manhattan

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Charles Hemstreet

The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishe…

The Witches of New York

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Q. K. Philander Doesticks

A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Phi…

Chapter Eight: Slavery Exists Among Us

In The Slavery of Our Times

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Leo Tolstoy (Aylmer Maude, Translator) and Leo Tolstoy

This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so mu…

36 - Of Prayer, pt 4

In Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3

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John Calvin

Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

2-09-Part II, Propositions 36 to 40

In The Ethics

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Benedict de Spinoza and Benedict De Spinoza

The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in Latin. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is…

INTRODUCTION

In Claimants to Royalty

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John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram

A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

Manhattan, 1609

In Short Poetry Collection 105

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Edwin Markham (1852-1940) and Edwin Markham

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012.