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  • The Houseleek on the Roof

    The 1874–1876 Diary of Anna Keyser Baker, a Philadelphia Swedenborgian

    by Anna Keyser Baker ...
    Anna Keyser Baker’s diary offers a reflective, vivid account of 19th-century Philadelphia life, faith, and personal observation.Written during the final years of her life, the diary of Anna Keyser Baker (1821–1877), offers a rare, eloquent window into everyday life, faith, and spiritual reflection in late-19th-century Philadelphia. A third-generation Philadelphia Swedenborgian, avid reader, ... Read more

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    by Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald Pitts ...
    The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England. ... Read more

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  • The Underground Railroad

    by William Still ...
    Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, ... Read more

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  • The Underground Rail Road

    by William Still ...
    Detailed accounts of escapes from slavery. First published in 1872. According to Wikipedia: "William Still (October 7, 1821 July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist.' The Preface begins: "Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father ... Read more

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  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

    by John Swanson Jacobs ...
    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Letters of Emily Dickinson

    by Emily Dickinson ...
    One of the Top 10 “Books We Love” —Fresh AirThe definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections—alternately humorous, provocative, affectionate, and philosophical—with her extensive community. While her letters ... Read more

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  • An Unrecognized Contribution

    Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto

    by Elizabeth Gillan Muir ...
    A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the groundwork for life in the city today.— DR. ROSE A. DYSON, author of Mind Abuse: Media Violence ... Read more

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  • American Saint

    The Life of Elizabeth Seton

    by Joan Barthel ...
    "A fascinating biography" of Elizabeth Seton, who shocked high society by converting to Catholicism—a faith that was illegal in New York when she was born ( Booklist).In this riveting biography of the first American saint, Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life encompassed wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York ... Read more

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  • The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County

    The 1850 Van Winkle Killings

    by Don Everett Smith Jr. ...
    "A fascinating trip back to a pastoral New Jersey where malls, gangsters and toxic waste did not exist, and violence still shocked the public."—Robert Schneck, author of The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True TalesOn January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston, in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ ... Read more

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  • Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)

    by Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. ... Read more

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  • Book Madness

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    The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848Charles Lamb's library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched ... Read more

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  • Mark Twain's Letters (1907-1910)

    Humorous and insightful letters from a literary icon's final years

    by Mark Twain ...
    In "Mark Twain's Letters (1907-1910)," the celebrated American author captures the essence of his later years through a series of poignant and often humorous correspondences. This collection, reflecting Twain's distinctive literary style, is rich with wit and insight, offering an intimate glimpse into his thoughts on various subjects, including societal issues, personal reflections, and his ... Read more

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