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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Read by Andrew Kennedy

Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

Putting the Most Into Life

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Booker T. Washington

The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Oak and Ivy

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…

The Death of Lincoln

In Short Poetry Collection 208

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William Cullen Bryant

This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020.

The Man from Time

In Short Science Fiction Collection 068

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Frank Belknap Long

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Paul Laurence Dunbar

In The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…

Preface

In Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…

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Mary S. Locke

Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

In Short Poetry Collection 206

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Christopher Marlowe

This is a collection of 80 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2020.

IV. Later Lyrics, Part 1

In English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson

This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

Best Thoughts of Negro Leaders

In Lamp of Wisdom

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William H. Councill

William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…