The Story of Slavery

Booker T. Washington

This volume is dedicated to my Wife Margaret James Washington And to my Brother John H. Washington Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to make the work at...

Booker T. Washington

Published June, 1902 Printed by Manhattan Press, New York, U. S. A. TO THE OFFICERS AND TEACHERS OF The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute ...

Booker T. Washington

Chapter I. Page 3 First appearance of Negroes in America--Rapid increase--Conditions during Civil War--During the reconstruction.

Booker T. Washington

III. THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH 77 _By W.E. Burghardt DuBois_ IV. RELIGION IN THE SOUTH 123 _By W.E. Burghardt DuBois...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.