Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

Various

Sprache: English

Genres: Essays & Kurzwerke Sachbücher

Sprecher:TriciaG, VfkaBT, Oxenhandler, Craig Campbell, Sue Anderson, Availle, David Wales, Garth Burton, Cori Samuel

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1/19The Absolute Equality of All Men Before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction

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1. The Absolute Equality of All Men Before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction
2. Bottlenose Whale
3. Botrytis
4. The Conservation of Races
5. The Earthquake of 1755
6. Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People
7. Immanuel Kant's Letter on Swedenborg to Charlotte von Knobloch
8. It Is Not So Difficult To Live The Life That Leads To Heaven As Is Believed
9. John Ruskin Obituary
10. A Letter from Joanna Southcott to a Gentleman from London
11. Local Guardian Spirits
12. Moreheart Murder and Suicide, November 1, 1916
13. On the Kaleidoscope
14. People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 1
15. People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 2
16. Preface to Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung's Golden Hours
17. Robert Emmet's Appeal Before His Execution in The Irish Rebellion Of 1803
18. Twenty-four Hours of a Sailor's Life at Sea
19. A Womanly Chat on Practical Housewifery

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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color" in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks after the Civil War; W.E.B.Du Bois on the American Negro Academy, and a biography of Harriet Tubman; Irish patriot Robert Everet's execution appeal; Swendenborg and spiritism; the optics of the kaleidoscope; the daily life of sailors and housewives; the relation of meteor showers to a massive earthquake in 1755; John Ruskin; Friedrich Schelling; Bramah's Kai Lung stories; and articles on the bottlenose whale and botrytis mold. (Summary by Sue Anderson)