He also meticulously collected the letters, biographical sketches, arrival memos, and ransom notes of the escapees. The Underground Railroad Records is an archive of primary documents that trace the narrative arc of the greatest, most successful campaign of civil disobedience in American history.This edition highlights the remarkable creativity, resilience, and determination demonstrated by those trying to subvert bondage. It is a timeless testament to the power we all have to challenge systems that oppress us.

    Includes chapters on war - Western Asia, the Persians, Carthage and Rome, the Arabs, etc; religion - Arabian, Mecca, Israelites, the Jews, etc; liberty - Ancient Europe, the German Invasion, the Portuguese Discoveries, Abolition, etc.; and intellect. This classic work first published in 1872. Reade was an explorer and a disciple of Darwin who acknowledged that Descent of Man had left him little to say respecting the birth and infancy of the faculties and affections'. His The Martyrdom of Man, an essay in Universal History', dealing with war, religion, liberty, and intellect, was informed not only by Darwin, but the many other authors listed in the introduction . Reade declared his own atheism in defiance of 'the advice and wishes of several literary friends and his publisher.' The book takes us from Africa and throughout the world. Winwood Reade (1838-1875) was an atheist, traveler, and controversialist who traveled extensively through Africa, covered the Ashanti War, wrote against Roman Catholicism and other established forms of religion.

    He was educated chiefly by Jesuits at Tullabeg College and entered the army as an ensign of the 69th Foot at Fermoy Barracks in 1858, becoming captain in 1872 and major in 1874. He took part with distinction in the Red River expedition (1870-71) and the Ashanti operations (1873-74), receiving the Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1874. In 1877 he married Elizabeth Thompson, an accomplished painter of battle scenes, and notably of horses, with whom he had six children. He went on to serve in the Zulu War and the Sudan and in 1886 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, continuing to hold high-ranking positions until leaving the King's service in 1905. His last years were spent at Bansha Castle in Ireland where he became a frequent lecturer both in Dublin and the provinces on historical, social and economic questions. The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America, first published in 1872, established his reputation as a fine descriptive writer, and his other works include a biography of Sir George Colley and his own autobiography which was unfinished at the time of his death but completed by his youngest daughter, Eileen, Viscountess Gormanston, and published posthumously in 1911.

    In this speech, which was first delivered in 1859, Frederick Douglass gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man.

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    Chambers of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes in London; Annie Hamilton's preface to her translation; Friedrich Althaus's biographical notice on Gregorovius. Book One covers from the beginning of the 5th century to the fall of the Western Empire in 476. It treats: the description of the city, its churches and monuments; The transformation from a pagan to a Christian city; The city's encounter with Honorius, Radagaisus, and Stilicho; The sieges of Alaric; Popes and Vandals; Saints and Emperors; Empresses and Legends. Book Two extends from the beginning of the reign of Odoacer to the establishment of the Exarchate in Ravenna in 568 and includes: The career of Theodoric; The survival of Roman customs and festivals; The Jews of Rome and schism in the Catholic Church; The trial and execution of Boethius and Symmachus; Amalasuntha, Belisarius, Vitiges; Rome between the Goths and the Byzantines; Invasions by the Lombards and other Barbarians; The condition of Rome at the end of the wars.

    Author: Rev. Alfred Church, M.A. Language: English Keywords: Literature / Roman History Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

    It treats the relations of the Emperor and Pope to Rome; the death of Pipin; Bernard and Lothar, Kings of Italy; the Saracen invasion of the Mediterranean and their Kingdom of Sicily; the churches built by Paschalis I; Popes Leo IV, Nicholas I and John VIII; Emperors Lewis II, Charles the Fat, Lambert and Arnulf; the devastation created by the Saracens; the fortunes of the monastery of Farfa; Cluniac Reform of the monasteries; the reign of Alberic; the Charter of Otto I; Crescentius; revolts in Rome; the growing decadence of the papacy; legal administration in Rome; the general decline in learning in Rome; the regions, legends and ruins of Rome. This edition is based on the second revised edition of the English translation and matches the original page-for-page - and footnote-for-footnote - for accuracy of citation and is entirely reset for modern readability. Volume III includes an introduction to Gregorovius and his work by David S. Chambers of the Warburg Institute, London. It is available in both paperback and on fully-searchable CD-ROM.