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Whitney Shaw The Lakota Nation 1800's

NATIVE AMERICANS

Short Story
English
4284 Words
Ages 16 and up
166
0

Into the past, a young girl falls in love with a young Native warrior. She quickly learns and [more]

Keywords: Native, Americans, story, 1800's

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Cotter Bass ECHOES of SLAVERY - Volume I

FORMER SLAVES SHARE THEIR FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN BONDAGE.

History
English
17021 Words
Ages 12 and up
333
0

During the Depression years between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent out-of-work writers in seventeen states to interview ordinary people in order to document their life stories. Initially, only four states involved in the project (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia) focused on collecting the stories of people who had once been held in slavery. In 1937 the WPA directed the remaining states involved in the project to conduct interviews with former slaves as well. Federal field workers were given instructions regarding the kinds of questions to ask their informants and how to capture their dialects, the result of which may occasionally be offensive to contemporary readers. The field workers often visited the people they interviewed twice in order to gather as many recollections as possible. Sometimes they took photographs of the informants and their dwellings. The completed narratives were then turned over to their state's FWP director for editing and eventual transfer to Washington, D.C. The former slave narratives presented in ECHOES of SLAVERY - Volume I represent a small segment of more than two thousand first-person accounts of actual slave experiences, transcribed in their own words by the FWP and recorded for posterity. These first-person testimonials open a window into the past, enabling contemporary readers a rare opportunity to share the trials, fears, frustrations, hopes, and visions of those individuals caught up in the maelstrom that was 1800’s America. Walk alongside these resolute men and women in Volume I of ECHOES of SLAVERY as they portray the real world in which they struggled and endured. Experience the harsh and often brutal reality of slavery as it really was! [more]

Keywords: slavery, bondage, south, negro, Master, beatings, plantation, cotton, 1800’s, slave, colored, whuppin, antebellum, KKK, Patrolers, Patrollers

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VANILLAYUMS :) The brookway mansion

Thriller
English
4365 Words
No Age Recommendation
554
5

Katie moves into a new house called the brookway mansion in a town called brookway. Kaite finds a [more]

Keywords: scary, fiction, adventure, thriller

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Scarlet Vance Unexpected Surprises

Allison and Cameron

Romance
English
488 Words
Ages 14 and up
809
11

This story takes place in England in the 1800's. Our two main characters come from two different classes [more]

Keywords: 1800s, romance, sex, lies, lust, grudged, forbiden love

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KJ Micheal See ya, Cowboy!

Thriller
English
9399 Words
Ages 16 and up
110
0

After crashing his wagon off of a cliff while being pursued by men on horseback, a young man [more]

Keywords: Cowboy, Western, Mystery, Adventure, Drama, Action, Survival

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Cotter Bass REMEMBERING SLAVERY

FORMER SLAVES SHARE PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN BONDAGE

History
English
52109 Words
Ages 12 and up
61
0

Walk alongside the resolute men and women in REMEMBERING SLAVERY as they portray the real world in which they struggled and endured as slaves. Experience the harsh and often brutal reality of slavery as it really was; the beatings, the humiliation, the long hours and back-breaking work, and the seemingly endless days of cruelty and hardship. Their personal accounts expose the undeniable and often uncomfortable truths, both good and evil, attendant to life in bondage. The personal accounts of 24 former slaves presented in REMEMBERING SLAVERY expose the harsh and often painful tribulations they endured while living in bondage, transcribed in their own words and recorded for posterity. These first-person testimonials open a window into the past, thus enabling contemporary readers a rare opportunity to share the trials, fears, frustrations, hopes, and visions of these African Americans caught up in the maelstrom that was the 1800’s Antebellum Period. [more]

Keywords: slavery, bondage, whippings, emancipation, freedom, blacks, African, escape, Underground Railroad, plantation, cotton, South, Civil War, endure, struggle, negro, fear, running, pain, suffering [more][Less]

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Cotter Bass ECHOES OF SLAVERY - Volume II

FORMER SLAVES SHARE PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN BONDAGE

History
English
26278 Words
Ages 16 and up
64
0

ECHOES of SLAVERY – Volume II During the Depression years between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent out-of-work writers in seventeen states to interview ordinary people in order to document their life stories. Initially, only four states involved in the project (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia) focused on collecting the stories of people who had once been held in slavery. In 1937 the WPA directed the remaining states involved in the project to conduct interviews with former slaves as well. Federal field workers were given instructions regarding the kinds of questions to ask their informants and how to capture their dialects, the result of which may occasionally be offensive to contemporary readers. The field workers often visited the people they interviewed twice in order to gather as many recollections as possible. Sometimes they took photographs of the informants and their dwellings. The completed narratives were then turned over to their state's FWP director for editing and eventual transfer to Washington, D.C. The former slave narratives presented in Volume II - ECHOES of SLAVERY represent a small segment of more than two thousand first-person accounts of actual slave experiences, transcribed in their own words by the FWP and recorded for posterity. These first-person testimonials open a window into the past, enabling contemporary readers a rare opportunity to share the trials, fears, frustrations, hopes, and visions of those individuals caught up in the maelstrom that was 1800’s America. Walk alongside these resolute men and women in ECHOES of SLAVERY - Volume II as they portray the real world in which they struggled and endured. Experience the harsh and often brutal reality of slavery as it really was! [more]

Keywords: slavery, bondage, negro, master, beatings, plantation, south, Civil War, cotton, kkk, ateebellum, 1800's

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Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Science Fiction
English
102819 Words
Ages 6 and up
427
3

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. Back in the late 1800's, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal. The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition which he accepts. Canadian master harpoonist Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful servant Conseil are also brought aboard. Title page (1871) The expedition departs Brooklyn aboard the United States Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln and travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. The ship finds the monster after a long search and then attacks the beast, which damages the ship's rudder. The three protagonists are then hurled into the water and grasp hold of the "hide" of the creature, which they find, to their surprise, to be a submarine very far ahead of its era. They are quickly captured and brought inside the vessel, where they meet its enigmatic creator and commander, Captain Nemo. The rest of the story follows the adventures of the protagonists aboard the creature—the submarine, the Nautilus—which was built in secrecy and now roams the seas free from any land-based government. Captain Nemo's motivation is implied to be both a scientific thirst for knowledge and a desire for revenge on (and self-imposed exile from) civilization. [more]

Keywords: twenty thousand leagues under the sea, jules verne, sci fi, classic science fiction, action and adventure, science fantasy

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Florence Hazel Call 1800-234-DEAD

Hopefully you won't be left with a DEAD line...

Mystery & Crime
English
2671 Words
Ages 10 and up
438
5

Charm Moravia was your average, everyday girl, she had just graduated college and was ready to move on to her dream job--a film director in the big city, away from the dreary, drab small town in Colorado. But things change when she gets home one day to two police officers waiting to question her. When Charm realizes that all these girls are being killed and the killer somehow wants to go after HER...let's just say things get a bit complicated, especially when she's getting phone calls from a person who has been dead for one-hundred years. Will Charm survive the wrath of the evil killer? Will she learn why she is a target of phone calls from dead people? Find out in Call 234-1800-DEAD! [more]

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Prasanna, Sai Pooja, Soumya, and Emma European Female Leaders (1450-1800)

History
English
80 Words
No Age Recommendation
1492
27

Do you love history? Are you itching to get your nose in a book full of juicy European [more]

Keywords: History, Europe, Female, Leaders

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