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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 314: Lincoln Douglas Debates 3 & 4
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 149: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Episode 313: Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1 and 2
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 148: God Help Me!: The Divine Invasion
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 147: VALIS
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 146: Dick's Last Story (The Alien Mind)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 145: I Will Just Never Understand You (Rautavaara's Case)
Episode 312: Lincoln's Return to Public Life (Writings 1855 to summer of 1858)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 144: Memories if Nothing Else (I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 143: Philip K. Dick Writes about Crazy Neighbors (Strange Memories of Death)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 142: The Exit Door Leads In
Episode 311: The Beginning of the Sectional Conflict (Abraham Lincoln's Writings 1849-1854)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 141: The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.5: The Cycle of Death (A Scanner Darkly, Part 5)
Episode 310: An Illinois Lawyer Goes to Washington (Lincoln Writings 1845-1848)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.4: This Is Your Brain on Death (A Scanner Darkly Part 4)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.3: I'll Be Watching You....I Mean Me (A Scanner Darkly Part 3)
Episode 309: Young Politician Lincoln (to 1844)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.2: Paranoia and the Police State (A Scanner Darkly, Part 2)
Episode 308: Tocqueville Finale (Democracy in America, Part 8)
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