Creole Slave Songs
Study of Louisiana and West Indian Creole slave songs: their Creole dialect, song-forms (dance, love-songs, dirges), and the cultural and social context of enslaved and free people of color.
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Creole Slave Songs
What Shall the Negro Do?
1888 essay addressing African Americans: praises post-emancipation gains but decries persistent discrimination. Urges organization, civic participation, education, and allied support.
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A Simpler Southern Question
Notes Tolstoy’s religious sincerity, then analyzes the 'Negro question,' arguing that Reconstruction-era reforms advanced civil and voting rights but the problem remains unfinished.
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Strange True Stories of Lousiana
Preface to George W. Cable's Strange True Stories of Louisiana describing the author's recovery of manuscripts, court papers, and eyewitness accounts that yielded several real-life tales.
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The Southern Struggle for Pure Government: An Address
George W. Cable argues that true self-government needs both free and pure ballots; excluding citizens (esp. Black voters) breeds corruption and undermines Reconstruction-era democracy.
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The Busy Man’s Bible and How to Study and Teach It
Practical handbook urging busy men to study and teach the Bible. Offers guidance on why to study, how to begin, build study habits, and teach with the right spirit.
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A Memory of Roswell Smith. Born March 30, 1829. Died April 19, 1892
Memoir of Roswell Smith (1829–1892), an industrious American publisher and devout Christian. Covers his upbringing, career in publishing, marriage, and faithful character.
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Does the Negro Pay for His Education?
Analyzes Southern public-school underfunding: constitutional limits on property taxes and capricious poll-tax collection shift costs onto poor whites and Black citizens.
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Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War
Diary of a Union woman living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, recounting daily life, secession, slavery, social tensions, and escapes/prison experiences.
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A Pastoral Letter, by the Associate Presbytery of the Carolinas, to the People Under Their Care
A pastoral letter warning of declining piety and urging reformation. It rebukes widespread intemperance and calls believers to return to divine ordinances and holiness.
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Abraham Anderson, D.D.
Sketch of Abraham Anderson (1789–1855), Associate Church minister and seminary professor noted for scholarship, pastoral zeal, humility, and steady leadership amid church controversies.
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Negro Slavery Unjustifiable
1802 Reformed Presbyterian sermon by Alexander M’Leod arguing that Negro slavery is immoral and unjustifiable, grounded in Scripture and natural rights, urging Christian opposition.
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Messiah, Governor of the Nations of the Earth (1803)
Sermon arguing Christ, as Mediator, is Governor of all nations. His universal kingship secures the Church, empowers the gospel, and vindicates his sufferings.
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