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Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. Weld demonstrates how even prisoners--in the...
10) Black Manhattan
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Originally published in 1930 and now back in print with an introduction by Zadie Smith, Black Manhattan traces the Black experience in New York City from its origins in the seventeenth century, through the Revolutionary and Civil War periods, to the triumphant achievements of the Harlem Renaissance. Written by one of the leading Black scholars and activists of the first half of the twentieth century, this timeless book also illuminates Black literature,...
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This 1898 collection of the militant abolitionist's essays and sketches includes "A Cambridge Boyhood," "A Child of the College," "The Rearing of a Reformer," "The Fugitive Slave Epoch," "Kansas and John Brown," "Civil War," "Literary London Twenty Years Ago," and "On the Outskirts of Public Life," among others.
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