Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

by Various

19 chapters5h 56mEnglish0

About this book

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)

Chapters (19)

1The Absolute Equality of All Men Before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction

2549

2Bottlenose Whale

122

3Botrytis

121

4The Conservation of Races

1697

5The Earthquake of 1755

1010

6Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People

1444

7Immanuel Kant's Letter on Swedenborg to Charlotte von Knobloch

850

8It Is Not So Difficult To Live The Life That Leads To Heaven As Is Believed

1564

9John Ruskin Obituary

592

10A Letter from Joanna Southcott to a Gentleman from London

459

11Local Guardian Spirits

425

12Moreheart Murder and Suicide, November 1, 1916

191

13On the Kaleidoscope

476

14People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 1

2232

15People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 2

3265

16Preface to Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung's Golden Hours

574

17Robert Emmet's Appeal Before His Execution in The Irish Rebellion Of 1803

1189

18Twenty-four Hours of a Sailor's Life at Sea

977

19A Womanly Chat on Practical Housewifery

1631

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

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