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Born a slave, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) escaped to the North where he became a prominent abolitionist, historian, novelist and playwright. His 1863 book The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements portrays the lives of individuals selected by Brown that had “by their own genius, capacity, and intellectual development, surmounted the many obstacles which slavery and prejudice have thrown in their way, and raised themselves to positions of honor and influence."

Le premier souvenir de solitude ? Un petit garçon coiffé en brosse qui réclame sa mère à l'accueil d'un grand magasin. Plus tard, c'est un enfant de 10 ans qui nage seul dans la mer du nord et qui, lorsqu'il se retourne, découvre la plage vide : personne ne l'a attendu. Puis c'est la première danse refusée, la première rupture, le premier deuil, mais c'est aussi tous ces moments choisis, voulus, espérés, goutés : seul avec un livre, avec une musique, seul à regarder les autres, seul en écrivant.

Historical Sketches of the Ancient Negro (1920) by Edward and Josephine sought to correct the image of their African ancestors in the perception of Afro-Americans. The authors explore the ancient history of Cush, Ethiopia, Nubia and other African kingdoms, relying on Biblical text and other primary sources to retell the story of black Africans from an Afrocentric point of view, and providing an important early contribution to Ancient African history.

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835 - 1923) was an African American clergyman and editor. He served as a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1886, and founded The Christian Recorder, an important early African American newspaper. In The Negro in Holy Writ, published in 1900, Tanner shows that the African people are described in the Bible. He argues that the ancient Cushim were the ancient Ethiopians, and that they were Negroes. The book provides evidence for the unity of all mankind.

Rufus L. Perry was an educator and Baptist minister from Brooklyn, New York. He was a member of the African Civilization Society and was a co-founder of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum. The Cushite is a short work that investigates the history of ancient peoples.

Steve Hartman’s inspirational and motivational memoir is peppered with research-based observations, pointed questions, hilarious anecdotes, delicious - and terrifying - sexual escapades, and genuine concern for his fellow humans, indeed for all creatures great and small. His periodic Socratic approach often challenges acceptable norms and beliefs. Looking at life through the lens of his uniquely personal experiences and thoughts, Hartman shares valuable lessons on how to live a joyful pleasure filled life without lecturing to the listener.

Der attraktive Wyatt Haney hätte nur zu gern den Mut, Nachbarin Kayla zu fragen, ob sie mit ihm ausgehen würde, aber seine Schüchternheit kommt ihm immer wieder in die Quere. Und so versteckt er sich lieber unter seiner Kapuze und hofft auf ein Wunder. Und Kayla? Die alleinerziehende junge Frau hat eigentlich keinen Platz in ihrem Leben für eine neue Beziehung, aber sie denkt trotzdem immer wieder an den stillen Mann im Erdgeschoss.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by the author and playwright William Wells Brown. Set in the early 19th century, it is the story of Clotel and her sister Althesa, who are fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. It is considered the first novel published by an African American and explores the destructive effects of slavery on African American families, the difficult lives of mixed-race people, and the degraded and immoral condition of the relationship between master and slave.

"The Heroic Slave" is the only work of fiction by the eminent abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The narrative was inspired by Madison Washington, a slave on the Creole who led a rebellion on the ship in November 1841, and had it sail to Nassau in the Bahamas instead of New Orleans. The short story appeared in the collection Autographs for Freedom (1852).

Von Bestsellerautorin Barbara Longley: Der Auftakt zur romantischen Serie über die Haney-Brüder. Kein Zweifel: Wenn es im Haus etwas zu bauen oder zu reparieren gibt, dann ist Sam Haney der Richtige. Dass er außerdem attraktiv ist wie die Sünde und seinen Auftraggeberinnen nach Feierabend noch so manchen Wunsch erfüllt, hat sich in der Stadt ebenfalls herumgesprochen. Trudy Cooper findet, dass ihre Tochter Haley einen wie Sam braucht. Denn seit Haleys Verlobter sie kurz vor der Hochzeit verlassen hat, sitzt sie mit gebrochenem Herzen in einem halbfertigen Haus.

Adam Hasting’s life takes an unexpected turn when a baby is left at Hastings Security with a note asking him to take care of his daughter. As the oldest brother in the family business, Adam has always set an example. One thing he knows for sure is the child can’t possibly be his. Faced with an impossible situation, America’s sweetest voice, September Platt makes the only sane decision she can and leaves her baby with the only man she ever loved.

John Newton was the master of a slave ship, later becoming a beloved Anglican priest and an ardent abolitionist. His conversion to Christianity began in 1748, and in 1764 he was accepted in the priesthood. However, it took him a while to denounce the slave trade as the pamphlet "Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade" was only published in 1787. Its impact was immediate and it became quite influential. Graphically describing the horrors of the slave trade, the publication is a moving confession of repentance for the author’s part in the hideous trade in human beings.

E. M. Bounds (1835-1913) was a popular and respected Christian author and attorney. He wrote Power Through Prayer as a guide for Christians who wish to improve their lives. The book is practical, teaches the individual to pray fervently and effectively, and is claimed to have an invigorating effect on the soul.

A rivetting account of the western pioneers and their journeys across the wildlands in the early years of the 19th century. Travelling from the east to Pacific Coast held many dangers. The narrative describes those who traveled with him and many encounters with Indian tribes.

Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - 1858) was an African American and Native American author, inventor, and entrepreneur. In the ethnological work Light and Truth, Lewis claims that Adam and Eve were people of color, as were the Egyptians and many great figures of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar and Plato. Denouncing notions of white superiority, he asserts that all humans have a common origin, and pointed to a shared cultural history between Africans and Native Americans.

Jesse Max Barber, born in Blackstock, South Carolina, to former slave parents, was a journalist, dentist, and civil rights leader. His literary career began in 1903 while attending Virginia Union University in Richmond. In this work, The Negro of the Earlier World, Barber contends that a race without traditions and without history is most likely to be a race without backbone and without self-respect.

View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America is an 1823 book by Ethan Smith, a Congregationalist minister, who argued that Native Americans were descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The lost 10 tribes were believed to have disappeared after being taken captive by the Assyrians in the eighth century BCE. Smith's speculation was inspired by the apocryphal book II Esdras 13:41, which claims that the ten tribes settled in a far country, "where never mankind dwelt."

Die schöne Austin ist außer sich: Thatch, der Mann, den sie liebt, hat eine andere Frau geküsst und dann ohne eine weitere Erklärung mit ihr Schluss gemacht. Nach Tränen, viel zu vielen Süßigkeiten und einem Serien-Marathon will Austin vor allem eins: Rache! Mit beträchtlicher krimineller Energie und viel Fantasie macht sie fortan Thatch das Leben zur Hölle. Und Thatch? Der attraktive Schönheitschirurg weiß, dass er ihre Liebe zerstört hat. Um Austin zu schützen, hat er die Notbremse gezogen, aber das darf sie niemals erfahren. Tatsache ist: Er ist nicht über sie hinweg.

Ce texte extrait d'un recueil de nouvelles fantastiques de Claire PANIER-ALIX, relate l'angoissant retour de Jonah, dernier héritier des Mac Fleet, au manoir ancestral, déserté depuis la mystérieuse disparition du reste de la famille. Hommage aux grands maîtres du fantastique, d'Edgar A. Poe à H.P. Lovecraft en passant par Gustav Meyrinck, cette pièce dévoile une autre facette de l'écriture de l'autrice, qui a habitué son public à des sagas de Fantasy. Cette nouvelle fut publiée en 2001 dans la revue canadienne SOLARIS (n°138).

Le XVIIème siècle se partage entre baroque et classicisme. La poésie baroque (Théophile de Viau, Tristan Lhermite) affirme quelques principes communs: goût de la sensualité, des extrêmes, de l'ornementation, du language à effets, avec une prédilection de la forme sur le fond; on privilégie les sentiments sur la raison. L'avènement du pouvoir royal absolu avec ses poètes de cour entraîne un rejet des excès du baroque et, avec Malherbe, une stricte codification de la versification.