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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Read by James K. White
Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
Read by James K. White
John Relly Beard
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…
The Life of Anthony
Read by Matthew James Gray
Athanasius of Alexandria
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…
Redburn: His First Voyage
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…
KIRINS: The Spell of No'an
Read by James D. Priest
James D. Priest
A race of tiny, magical beings lives on Earth today. They dwell in elaborate tree homes and mysterious underground sanctuaries. Because of a…
The Negro Problem
Read by James K. White
Various
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …
Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Shaykh Hasan
“This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have no…
The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete
Read by James K. White
Mark Twain
These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A …
The Conjure Woman
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…
A Book of Myths
Read by James K. White
Jean Lang
This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style. Lang compl…
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…
Father Goriot
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …
The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk
Read by James K. White
John Howell
This work was the true story of Alexander Selkirk (1676 to December 13, 1721), a Scottish sailor who was employed in a number of different t…
The Marrow of Tradition
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…
Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839
Read by James K. White
Frances Anne Kemble
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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…
KIRINS: The Flight of the Ain
Read by James D. Priest
James D. Priest
A race of tiny magical beings lives on Earth today. They are kirins. Because of an ancient dispute, however, humans are unaware of their hi…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Read by James K. White
Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
The House Behind the Cedars
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …
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