Albion: 31 books

Following the American civil war, Comfort Servosse and his young family emigrate to the South, but receive no warm welcome. By author Albion Winegar Tourgée, this novel frankly discusses issues of slavery along with political and social attitudes during the nation’s reconstruction. Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1879 edition.

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This is the notification to the world that the Book of Revelation is a code and the Bible is the greatest deception ever told. It is the culmination of two thousand years of deception and two decades of code breaking. This book sets out the overall design of the conspiracy and is necessary prior to...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat...

THE MAN-OF-THE-BARREL 1475-1510 SOMETIME in the summer of the year 1501 there landed on the southern coast of Santo Domingo one of the strangest expeditions that ever visited its shores. It was commanded by one Rodrigo de Bastidas, a rich notary of Seville, in Old Spain, who had become imbued with a...

Beyond Fate is the story of Tim Storey, a teacher from Port Washington who suddenly receives intuitive information that he believes may lead him to the whereabouts of four people who mysteriously disappeared.A college coed fails to return home in Green Bay where her car is later found in a parking...

AUTHORITIES XVIth Century. Vespucci's letters to Soderini and L. P. F. de' Medici, reproduced in this volume. XVIIth Century. Herrera, in his Historia General (etc.), Madrid, 1601; "probably followed Las Casas, whose MSS. he had." XIXth Century. Navarrete, M. F. de, Noticias Exactas de Americo Vespucio,...

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Peppered with numerous quotes, quips, and observations, this book offers a detailed approach to how people who are serious about their careers can seek financial goals in life while maintaining an inner spiritual sense and stability.

The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images...

This 1879 novel, based on the author's own experiences, made a significant contribution to American literature in its unvarnished presentation of the South during Reconstruction.  When Comfort Servosse, an ex-Union soldier, moves his family south to aid in Reconstruction efforts, he finds an unrepentant racism that will imperil his dreams and threaten his very life.   

This 1880 sequel to A Fool's Errand was equally successful.  Drawing on his experiences in the Reconstruction-era South, Tourgée recounts how the high ideals of Reconstruction were sabotaged by the Ku Klux Klan and the culture of white supremacy that thrived in the defeated Confederacy—often with the concurrence of the victorious North. 

This study lies at the intersection of three principal areas of social history: demography, religion, and quantitative methods. It is a microanalysis of an English population at the level of the Anglican parish, during the era of the evangelical revival, which includes, unusually, Protestant dissenters...

Published in 1881, this novel is a retitled expansion of Tourgée's first novel 'Toinette, which appeared in 1874.  In the author's words, from the preface, the novel "traces . . . those unconscious influences which shape and mold mental and moral qualities, and through which Slavery still lives and dominates."