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MAYNE REID The Boy Slaves

Drama
English
97340 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school. In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.) From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [more]

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LOUIS ALBERT BANKS WHITE SLAVES

OR THE OPPRESSIONS OF THE WORTHY POOR

Education
English
44709 Words
Ages 18 and up
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"Hard work is good an' wholesome, past all doubt; But 'tain't so, ef the mind gits tuckered out." --JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: Biglow Papers. A wise man of the old time, after a tour of observation, came home to say, "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such, as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter." If this report had been written by one who had been climbing with me through the tenement houses of not less than a score of Boston streets, conversing with the sewing-women, looking on their poverty-lined faces and their ragged children, breathing the poisonous air of the quarters where they work, and listening to their heart-rending stories of cruelty and oppression, it would be an appropriate summary of our observation. It is my purpose, at this time, to take you with me on a tour of observation. As well-lighted streets are better than policemen to insure safety and good order, so I believe that the best possible service I can render the public is to turn on the light, and tell, as plainly and simply as I can, the story of what I have seen and heard and smelled in the white slave-quarters, which are a disgrace to our fair city. I shall confine myself at this time entirely to the work of women and children in their own homes. [more]

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Mayne Reid The Boy Slaves (Fiscle Part-X)

Short Story
English
101705 Words
Ages 18 and up
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________________________________________________________________________ This Is An Excellent Book, Telling Of The Adventures Of Three Midshipmen And A Much Older Sailor From A British Warship That Goes Aground Off The Coast Of Africa, Well Offshore, And Sinks With All Hands. However These Four Find Themselves Afloat On A Spar, Which They Paddle With Their Hands For Several Days Until They Reach The Shore Of Africa. Shortly After This They Are Taken Prisoner By Some Arabs, Who Intend To Take Them North To A Town Where They Can Be Sold As Slaves. [more]

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James M MacDonald We Decadent Slaves

Poetry
English
7445 Words
No Age Recommendation
273
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A collection of poetry collected over the last 5 years.

Keywords: Poems, Poetry

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Mayne Reid The Boy Slaves

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Thomas Mayne Reid, was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written [more]

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Marion Gleason McDougall Fugitive Slaves 1619-1865

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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In all the colonies thus grouped together, the system of slavery had already become well established, and with [more]

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Marion Gleason McDougall Fugitive Slaves 1619-1865

Fiction
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Ages 18 and up
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Mrs. McDougall has drawn together and compared many cases found in obscure sources, and has perhaps been able [more]

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Nat Schachner Slaves of Mercury

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Nat Schachner (full name Nathaniel Schachner; January 16, 1895 – 1955), also appearing as "Nathan Schachner" and under [more]

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Nat Schachner Slaves of Mercury

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English
30726 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Nat Schachner (full name Nathaniel Schachner; January 16, 1895 – 1955), also appearing as "Nathan Schachner" and under other bylines, was an American author. His first published story was "The Tower of Evil," written in collaboration with Arthur Leo Zagat and appearing in the Summer 1930 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly. Schachner, who was trained as a lawyer and a chemist, achieved his greatest success writing biographies of early American historical figures, after about a decade of writing science fiction short stories. Schachner was one of Isaac Asimov's favorite authors. [more]

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Mór Jókai The Slaves of the Padishah

Drama
English
117276 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Móric Jókay de Ásva, outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. [more]

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