Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043 - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Various,
1 / 19The Absolute Equality of All Men Before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction
- 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)
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