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Knickerbocker Classics eBook Series

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own wordsConsidered to be the most famous work written by a former slave, this memoir, first published in 1845 set the tone for the American abolitionist movement. Within four months of its publication, it had sold more than five thousand copies. The book not only describes Douglass' life as a slave, but it also reveals his tremendous ... Read more

    S$ 17.32 SGD

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite.Frederick Douglass was an African-American abolitionist and statesman. Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and became a very influential figure in the 19th century. Douglass' autobiography in 1845 is the most famous ... Read more

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  • The Essential Writings

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Frederick Douglass was born in 1817 and lived for ten years as a slave upon a Maryland plantation. Then he was bought by a Baltimore shipbuilder. He learned to read, and, being attracted by "The Lady of the Lake," when he escaped in 1838 and went disguised as a sailor to New Bedford, Mass., he adopted the name Douglas (spelling it with two s's, however). He lived for several years in New Bedford, ... Read more

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  • Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom: The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery

    The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

    by William Craft,Ellen Craft ...
    Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William, as no woman would have traveled alone with a slave ... Read more

    S$ 7.51 SGD

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history. In 1872, ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass, Gregory Stephens ...
    Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre–Civil War plantations ... Read more

    S$ 6.31 SGD

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Margaret Fuller ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by Kwame Anthony AppiahCommentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret FullerThis Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for ... Read more

    S$ 6.31 SGD

  • Salem Witchcraft (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Including the History of the Conflicting Opinions on Witchcraft and Magic

    by Charles Wentworth Upham, Daphne Ulwick ...
    In Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II, Charles Wentworth Upham offers one of the earliest exhaustive narrative histories of the 1692 Salem trials, combining archival documentation, local genealogy, courtroom testimony, and moral reflection. Written in a sober nineteenth-century historical prose, the work situates the outbreak within Puritan theology, village factionalism, colonial insecurity, and ... Read more

    S$ 2.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Autobiography)

    Enriched edition.

    by Austin Steward, Camille Bishop ...
    Austin Steward's autobiographical work 'Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman' is a poignant account of his life as an African American man living in the early 19th century. The book details his experiences as a slave for over two decades, highlighting the harsh realities of slavery and the resilience of the human spirit. Steward's narrative is imbued with raw emotion and vivid ... Read more

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  • From Canal Boy to President

    by Horatio Alger ...
    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:From Canal Boy to President; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security ... Read more

    S$ 1.32 SGD

  • Clotel

    or, The President's Daughter

    by William W. Brown ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American ... Read more

    S$ 12.20 SGD

  • Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

    James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary traditionNo literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the ... Read more

    S$ 39.77 SGD