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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.
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)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.1: California Dreaming of Death (A Scanner Darkly, Part 1)
Episode 307: Democratic Mores (Democracy in America, Part 7)
Episode 306: Tocqueville on American Individualism (Democracy in America, Part 6)
Philip K. Dick Club: Episode 139: Science Fiction Writer or an Oracle? (The Eye of the Sibyl)
Episode 305: Tocqueville on Democracy's Intellectual Culture (Democracy in America, Part 5)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 138.2: A Pilgrimage at the End of Days (Deus Irae, Part 2)
Episode 304: Tocqueville on Slavery in America (Democracy in America, Part 4)
Philip K Dick Book Club: Episode 138.1: Post-Apocalyptic Gnostics (Deus Irae, Part 1)
Episode 303: Tocqueville on Parties and Threats to Democracy (Democracy in America, Part 3)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 137.4: Better a Crap Artist Conspiracy Theorist than Married (Confessions of a Crap Artist, Part 4)
Episode 302: Tocqueville on American Local Government (Democracy in America, Part 2)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 137.3: The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family (Confessions of a Crap Artist, Part 3)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 137.2: Not a Crappy Novel: Confessions of a Crap Artist (2)
Episode 301: Equality of Conditions: Democracy in America, Part 1
Episode 300: Bye bye Jefferson (Jefferson's Letters 1816-1816)
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame