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Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…

The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…

Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …

This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…

This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…

This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…

In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …

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