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While this is not quite a slave narrative, "The Confessions of Nat Turner" is testimony of one of the most famous American slaves (although the case can be made that he had already freed himself). While most slave narratives were weaponized in the anti-slavery struggle, this document was weaponized to justify strengthening the institution of slavery in the Antebellum South.
Episode 338: Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, Chapters 1-4
Episode 337: The Future is Female, Part 5
Episode 336: The Future is Female, Part 4
Episode 335: The Future is Female, Part 3
Episode 334: The Future is Female, 1945-1951
Episode 333: The Future is Female, Part 1
Episode 332: Willa Cather: Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Episode 331: Willa Cather, Lucy Gayheart
Episode 330: Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock, 2
Episode 329: Willa Cather: Shadows on the Rock, 1
Episode 328: Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 2
Episode 327: WIlla Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1
Episode 326: Willa Cather, The Professor's House-2
Episode 325: Willa Cather: The Professor's House, Part 1
Episode 324: I Am Back! Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
Episode 323: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln 1865
Episode 321: Lincoln Re-elected (Writings of Abraham Lincoln 1864)
Episode 320: Writings of Abraham Lincoln 1863
Episode 319: Dark Days of Defeat and the Slavery Question (Writing of Abraham Lincoln, 1862)
Episode 318: The First Year of the Civil War (Writings of Abraham Lincoln 1861)
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Art of War
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame