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Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832.

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...Black Elk, "The End of the Dream" (1932). First printed in Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks (New York William Morrow & Company, 1932). Reprinted as Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Lift Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Siou...

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...Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his, alon...

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...The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of the de Witt b...

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... and that is something that he can not allow. Complicating things is the fact that both Romayne and Stella are hiding their own terrible secrets. The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book centers around the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias (Summary by Mike Zane and Wikipe...

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...people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically. This was done by means of the notorious "Black Codes," passed by several of the state legislatures. Northerners regarded these codes as a revival of slavery in disguise. The first such body of statutes, and probably the harshest, was passed in Mississippi in Novembe...

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...f by Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...e Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott I. TALES OF MY LANDLORD Collected and Reported ... ...d, in various times and places, the destruc- tion of hares, rabbits, fowls black and grey, partridges, moor- pouts, roe-deer, and other birds and quad... ... thereof were collected. Jedediah Cleishbotham. 9 II. INTRODUCTION to THE BLACK DWARF . T he ideal being who is here presented as residing in solitud... ...perhaps produced a narrative as much disproportioned and distorted, as the Black Dwarf who is its subject. 15 III. THE BLACK DWARF. CHAPTER I. PRELIM... ...gh the yowes, it will be a’ we can do; we maun e’en leave the lambs to the Black Dwarfs care.” “Ay, ay,” subjoined the old shepherd (for such he was),... ...aking his head, “he’ll be unco busy amang the morts this season.” 16 “The Black Dwarf!” said my learned friend and patron, Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham,... ...“Hout awa, man,” answered the farmer, “ye’ll hae heard o’ Canny Elshie the Black Dwarf, or I am muckle mistaen—A’ the warld tells tales about him, but...

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...ts almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated w...

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...sylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in ... ...hem. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. ... ...eeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, — the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arter... ... ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Assembly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, when the Dutch people, tir... ...gdom, it seldom happens that he does not find at his side some miserable tool, in whose ear he has but to whisper a word to set him at once about his ... ...over,” hinted the Orange agitators interspersed through the crowd, whom they hoped to manage like a sharp-edged and at the same time crushing instrume... ...em: — “Well, gentlemen of the burgher guard, what are you ad- vancing for, and what do you wish?” The burghers shook their muskets, repeating their cr... ... And with the same calm mien, but more melancholy than he had been on entering the prison, the Grand Pensionary proceeded towards the cell of his brot... ...s his brother Cornelius was resting, af- ter having undergone the preparatory degrees of the tor- ture. The sentence of banishment having been pronoun...

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...The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at the scenes ...

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...amily and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mouth agape, he noticed a newborn jet black fawn all alone and apparently confused in his new surroundings. Bud resolved that day that this baby fawn was just like himself, an orphan, and would be bound to him in spirit. But many obstacles would keep the two sepa...

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...Black Heart and White Heart , is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)...