The Black heritage library collection

Tells about the elephant and its relation to man in war, pageantry, sports and games, as faithful laborer and servant, comrade and friend, its forms, structure and anatomy.

Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.

“Portrays the struggle between the national and states-rights theories, tracing their growth from the Missouri Compromise. The Mexican cessions and their political consequences are discussed at disproportionate length. Mr. Burgess possesses keen logical power; has written from the sources: holds pronounced views and is not unbiased, though he usually states both sides fairly and moderately. . . A stimulating book.” Larned’s Literature of American history. Bibliography and maps. — Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: History (H.W. Wilson) 1929

Fifty-six legends told by the daughter of the swamp witch.

Although Beecher takes issue with the call for women's active involvement in the abolition movement, her discussion reveals the inter-relationship between 19th century abolitionism and 19th century feminism.

Two children rescue an elderly woman from going to the alms-house by raising enough money to enable her to live in her own log cabin.

Eighteen short stories which reflect life in the South in the nineteenth century, particularly the attitudes toward blacks.

233 p. 23 cm

No indication of Schaefer donation.

Two boys are captured by Confederate deserters during the Civil War and held prisoner in the Okefenokee Swamp.

Fifty-five tales recount the antics of the animals that live in the woods just beyond the dark pines.

The adventures of two teen-age brothers on their South Carolina plantation in the nineteenth century.

"A fearless and penetrating discussion of America's Greatest Problem The most debated points of the race question as the relative mentality, physical and facial beauty, sex instinct, chastity, odor, truthfulness, health, honesty, of negro and Caucasian; as well as politics, the slavery of white people in Colonial America and elsewhere, intermarriage, religion ancient Negro civilization, race attraction and repulsion, lynching and other aspects all scientifically dealt with in an interesting argument between a southern United Sates Senator with pronounced views and a polished, well-educated, universally travelled Negro when the two happen to meet under peculiar circumstances."--Back cover.

The adventure of Captain Merry's family during a camping trip in New England's White Mountains in the nineteenth century.

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The Black Barque, by T. Jenkins Hains, is, by way of contrast, to the last an out-and-out story of piracy, and the breezes that blow through its pages are laden, so we are constantly reminded, with the pestilent breath of the slave ship. It is claimed for this book that the descriptions of life on board ship are noteworthy for their realistic strength; and there seems to be no reason for questioning their accuracy. But taken altogether, the brutality of the officers toward their crew, the inhumanity meted out to the living cargo of slaves, the carnage of the encounter with rival pirates, and finally the wholesale massacre when the slaves break loose and run amuck, leave an impression of a needless surfeit of horrors, a sort of piratical Dance of Death. — The Bookman, Volume XXI, pages 518-9 "Captain Hains, the master of the straight sea story, has built a picture that teems with the sea life of the time, striking in its splendid details. The 'Black Barque' is a rattling tale of the sea, as rough as a storm-lashed shoal, as brutal as the sea itself, with a splendid swing, a range of rough characters, and adventures on every page." — Current Literature. Captain Hains is said to have drawn from a large fund of personal experiences for the material for his book. — The Bookman, Volume XXI, page 330. "One of the best sea stories ever published." — Chicago Tribune. A large number of excellent seamen are persuaded by the offer of extravagant wages to ship for a voyage in a vessel of which they really know nothing and find themselves when once she is afloat on a voyage to Africa in a slaver. A display of brutality on the part of the captain, a mutiny, a rising of the slaves, are among the incidents which leave only the heroine, the narrator and two of the crew as survivors. It is an unpleasant but possible story. — The Dolphin, Volume VII--April, 1905--No.4., page 509. "Shows the author's mastery of a craft that allows none to sail to windward." — Chicago News.

2 v. 22 cm