Chapel Library: 24 books
by Paul Washer
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Another quality eBook from Chapel Library.
The Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church was preached at the Revival Conference in Atlanta in 2008. “Paul Washer delivered an urgent appeal to the Christians and churches in North America: that many have been believing a false gospel and...
by Arthur W. Pink
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. The Attributes of God has become a Christian classic in our time. Unlike other more devotional treatments, Pink considers the biblical evidence for each of God’s attributes and gives in-depth insight into His character and very nature. The reader leaves...
by Horatius Bonar
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Another quality eBook from Chapel Library! God's Way of Holiness looks at sanctification--the process by which the Holy Spirit conforms a believer's life to the will of God. Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) looks at the new life in the believer, which is the ground of holiness. He looks at Christ's work...
A Woman's Wartime Journal
An Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Union army on January 1, 1864. While she worries about the arrival of Sherman's troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path,...
Uncle Tom's Story of His Life
An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland in 1789; his escape to Canada in 1830;...
Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave
Written by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety...
by Moses Grandy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmate, his original owner's son, when they were both eight years old. Hired out until he was twenty-one, Grandy describes each of his temporary masters--some cruel and some kind. His first wife is sold shortly...
Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles
Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two subsequent versions of his document (including the reprinted 1830 edition published shortly before Walker's death) were increasingly radical. Addressed to the whole world but directed primarily to people...
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina
Their Origin and Racial Status
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson's Indians of North Carolina report, was an appeal to the state of North Carolina to create schools for the "Croatans" of Sampson County...
American Slavery As It Is
Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling...
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti
Comprising an Account of the Struggle for Liberty in the Island, and a Sketch of Its History to the Present Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. He led thousands of former slaves into battle against French, Spanish, and English forces, routing the Europeans and seizing control of the entire island of Hispaniola. L'Ouverture became governor and...
A Voice from the South
By a Black Woman of the South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent...
by Nat Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the August 21-22, 1831, slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia. The Confessions of Nat Turner details Turner's life and the events surrounding that armed revolt, which left more than...
The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years
Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section...
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