Chapel Library: 24 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who transcribed songs sung by former slaves in other...
Indians of North Carolina
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "Cherokees," a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and assistance in 1915, the Senate tasked the Office of Indian Affairs...
by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Carter Woodson (1875-1950) was a prominent black leader and intellectual of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Virginia in 1875 to formerly enslaved parents, he was educated at Berea College in Kentucky, the University of Chicago, and finally, Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in History....
The Cherokee Physician
Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The extended title of The Cherokee Physicianserves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was probably Scottish and Cherokee. Typical of its...
by John Andrew Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian"...
by African Methodist Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first definitive guide to the history, beliefs, teachings, and practices of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Beginning with a brief history, the book moves into a presentation of the "Articles...
Fifty Years in Chains
Or, the Life of an American Slave
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced...
Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself
A True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and Woolly" West, Based on Facts, and Personal Experiences of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers...
The Woman in Battle
A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl she was sent to school in New Orleans, where she ran away and married a U.S. Army officer. After the outbreak of the war, she persuaded her husband to renounce his commission and to join the Confederate...
by John G. Fee
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that epitomize Fee's experience as an abolitionist in the South, beginning with his religious conversion in early childhood. The text details his beliefs, his role in founding Berea, and the obstacles he surmounted,...
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