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Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veilis a literary work byW.E.B. Du Bois. Published in 1920, the text incorporates autobiographicalinformation as well asessays, spirituals, andpoemsthat were all written by Du Bois himself.

Written when he was 50, Darkwateris the first of Du Bois's three autobiographies.

Du Bois maintained that the book was written to develop an understanding of the complications of thecolor-linewith emphasis on its political implications.

""I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an 1845 memoir and treatise onabolitionwritten by the famousoratorand former slave"Frederick Douglass." It is generally held to be the most famous of a number ofnarrativeswritten by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel theabolitionist movementof the early 19th century in the United States.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass recounts Douglass' life as a slave and his ambition to become a free...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass' life as...

Will Guzman delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzman also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated...

For years war and at times preventable scenarios have taken life, maimed others, crippled yet others mentally, physically and intellectually, if not spiritually, The T4 program, PTSD and all.... worldwide. For the authors generation, The 1970's brought in cholera, the 1980's brought in the AIDs/HIV scare, and then the unholy beverages, .... not without pioneering conspiracy theories to back them up Mayan.... illuminati conspiracies, Georgia guide stones and all types of fantasy. Would there be any survivors? The 20th century was dominated by ethnic, race, political and religious struggles...

For years war and at times preventable scenarios have taken life, maimed others, crippled yet others mentally, physically and intellectually, if not spiritually, The T4 program, PTSD and all.... worldwide. For the authors generation, The 1970's brought in cholera, the 1980's brought in the AIDs/HIV scare, and then the unholy beverages, .... not without pioneering conspiracy theories to back them up Mayan.... illuminati conspiracies, Georgia guide stones and all types of fantasy. Would there be any survivors? The 20th century was dominated by ethnic, race, political and religious struggles...

An abolitionist and a champion of free love and women's rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886), American reformer, civil rights proponent, pioneer in sociology, advocate of reformed spelling, lawyer, and eccentric philosopher. Since his life mirrored and often anticipated the various reform movements spawned not only in Texas but in the United States in the nineteenth century, this first biography of him sharply reflects and elucidates his times.

The extremely important role Andrews played in the...