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The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Selections from

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Alfred Burdon Ellis


British Army officer and ethnographer AB Ellis was known for his writings on West Africa. His final publication takes an anthropological mag…

The Key-Note - Read by FAE

In The Key-Note

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Christina Rossetti


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Key-Note by Christina Rossetti.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 11, 2024. …

Introduction

In The Moravians in Jamaica

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J. H. Buchner


The United Brethren's Church (also known as the Moravians) , were invited to the Island of Jamaica by the Foster-Barhams in 1754.Spanning a …

Proof and Disproof

In Love Songs

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning shared one of the great literary and romantic marriages of the 19th century, eloping to Italy to escap…

"If you have gracious words to say"

In Poems We All Love

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Montrose L. Barnet


This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but w…

Chapter 6: Jamaica - White Men

In The West Indies and the Spanish Main

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Anthony Trollope


In The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope recounts his experiences traveling around the area of what is now known as the Car…