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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

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Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 05 hours and 56 minutes

Language: English

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)

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The Absolute Equality of All Men Before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction (TriciaG)
Bottlenose Whale (VfkaBT)
Botrytis (VfkaBT)
The Conservation of Races (Oxenhandler)
The Earthquake of 1755 (Craig Campbell)
Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People (Sue Anderson)
Immanuel Kant's Letter on Swedenborg to Charlotte von Knobloch (Craig Campbell)
It Is Not So Difficult To Live The Life That Leads To Heaven As Is Believed (Craig Campbell)
John Ruskin Obituary (Oxenhandler)
A Letter from Joanna Southcott to a Gentleman from London (Craig Campbell)
Local Guardian Spirits (Craig Campbell)
Moreheart Murder and Suicide, November 1, 1916 (VfkaBT)
On the Kaleidoscope (Availle)
People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 1 (VfkaBT)
People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 2 (VfkaBT)
Preface to Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung's Golden Hours (David Wales)
Robert Emmet's Appeal Before His Execution in The Irish Rebellion Of 1803 (David Wales)
Twenty-four Hours of a Sailor's Life at Sea (Garth Burton)
A Womanly Chat on Practical Housewifery (Cori Samuel)
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