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Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

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Reducere. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglas...

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There is little disagreement that Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a towering genius of the Victorian age, but what about the man behind the reputation?

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Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America - discover his Narrative this Black History Month. A p...

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Frederick Douglass's pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Frederick Dougl...

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