Books on Topic: 'Emancipation'

In celebration of Juneteenth, LibriVox volunteers bring you five different versions of O Southland!, by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poe...

Een arme jonker, Leopold, wordt onverwacht een grote erfenis in het vooruitzicht gesteld na de dood van een oud-tante – onder één voorwaarde: hij moet...

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

1845, Louise Aston lebt als geschiedene Frau in Berlin und bewegt sich in intellektuellen Kreisen. Sie raucht in der Öffentlichkeit und trägt Männerkl...

Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" is a landmark work of poetry that offers a complex and nuanced reflection of her l...

Onkel Toms Hütte ist ein bewegender Roman, der die brutale Realität der Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten des 19. Jahrhunderts darstellt. Er folgt...

The Emancipation Proclamation is a landmark document in American history. Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it declared that all...

This book provides a detailed and personal account of Harriet Tubman's life, detailing her experiences as a slave in Maryland, her courageous escape t...

This book offers a firsthand account of Abraham Lincoln's life and the Civil War through the eyes of Charles Godfrey Leland, a veteran of the conflict...

Set against the backdrop of the rising tensions that led to World War I, this gripping novel follows the story of Karl Duschek, a young officer strugg...

This book, published in 1893, is the autobiography of Peter Randolph, who was born into slavery in 1825 and later became a Baptist clergyman. The book...

In "Marthas Kinder," Bertha von Suttner continues the story begun in her groundbreaking anti-war novel, "Lay Down Your Arms." Baroness Martha Tilling,...

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, edited by Alice Dunbar Nelson, compiles speeches and writings from prominent African American leaders, capturing the...

This book presents Frederick Douglass's powerful speech delivered at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C., on Apr...

“O Abolicionismo” é uma obra seminal de Joaquim Nabuco, escrita em 1883, que defende a abolição da escravatura no Brasil. Nabuco argumenta que a escra...

“Lamp of Wisdom” by William H. Councill, a former slave and a contemporary of Booker T. Washington, delves into the history of the African American co...

Virgin Soil, the final novel by Ivan Turgenev, explores the tumultuous social changes sweeping through Russia in the wake of serf emancipation. The s...

This volume of Ida Tarbell's biography of Abraham Lincoln covers his life from his boyhood to his election to the presidency in 1860. Tarbell, a noted...

This volume, part of the larger 'Slave Narratives' project, presents a collection of first-hand accounts from former slaves in North Carolina. These n...

This volume compiles a series of first-hand accounts of slavery in North Carolina, as told by former slaves themselves. The narratives were collected...

This book delves into the century-long history of the Moravian missionaries in Jamaica, exploring the complex and often humorous interactions between...

This volume of the Federal Writers' Project's Slave Narratives offers a collection of firsthand accounts from former slaves living in Ohio. These narr...