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From slave to successor to Booker T. Washington as head of the Tuskegee Institute is a personal story of an African-American and his struggles during the Ante-Bellum years.
Robert Russa Moton was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on August 26, 1867, and was raised in nearby Rice, Prince Edward County, Virginia. He was the grandson of an African chieftain who had grown wealthy by engaging in slave trading. Later this chief was himself sold into slavery,...
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Raja Sharma
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2015.
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English
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Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller was first published in 1934. The book was described as notorious for its candid sexuality, and it created a lot of controversy when it was first published. The free speech which is very common in literature now was first used by Henry Miller and he was heavily criticized for that. The book was published in France, but it was banned in the United States of America. The American government said that Henry Miller had...
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Raja Sharma
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2015.
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English
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Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen was first published in 2001. It is a young adult novel. The story revolves around a young boy. The boy goes through the experiences of violence, nature, and forgiveness when he is banished to a remote Island in Alaska. It is a punishment for a violent crime. During the period of his punishment, the boy comes face to face with a rare bear species, the Spirit Bear. After that encounter with the rare species of...
5) Account of a tour of the California missions & towns, 1856: the journal & drawings of Henry Miller
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Bellerophon Books
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 161
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New Directions
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1957
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English
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[1934]
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English
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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for 27 years after its publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the...
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