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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.
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Episode 619: W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America (Part 4)
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Episode 619: W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America (Part 3)
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Episode 617: W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 63: Between Planets (Part 1)
Episode 616: W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America (Part 1)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 62: Cliff and the Calories
Episode 615: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Oldtown Folks (Part 5)
Episode 614: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Oldtown Folks (Part 4)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 61: The Man Who Sold the Moon
Episode 613: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Oldtown Folks (Part 3)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 60: Farmer in the Sky (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 59: Farmer in the Sky (Part 1)
Episode 612: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Oldtown Folks (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 58: Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Turn of the Screw
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