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A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD
by Lucy Larcom, ca. 1889, reprint, 274 pp. One of the classics in the history
of the Industrial Revolution and of 19th c. women's history. Lucy Larcom
worked in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts during the 1830s and
40s when young girls were recruited throughout New England and was a major
contributor to the famed "Lowell Offering." Her autobiography provides
a rare glimpse of life in the early textile mills. A classic study of early
19th century values.
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HC 0-87928-078-6
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$24.95
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 SOCIAL
AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR by
Emerson D. Fite, ca. 1910, reprint, 318 pp. Describes what the people behind
the lines were doing, their occupations, personal interests, pleasures
and involvement in community affairs. Analyzes industrial and agricultural
growth and the effect of the war on all aspects of business and commerce.
Fite's book has long been recognized as a most authoritative study on the
economic and social conditions during the Civil War.
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HC 0-87928-070-0
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$24.95
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 VILLAGE
LIFE IN AMERICA: THE DIARY OF A SCHOOL GIRL, 1852-1872
by Caroline C. Richards, intro. by Margaret Sangster, ca. 1913, reprint,
225 pp. An invaluable look at a small town America between 1852-1872 as
seen through the eyes of a perceptive young girl. Caroline Cowles began
her diary in Canandaigua, NY in 1852 at the age of ten. Her diary provides
a rich source of information on the life of young people and families in
the Northeast during the mid-l9th C.
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HC 0-87928-029-8
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$24.95
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HC 0-87928-115-4
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$16.95
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COMMUNISTIC (COMMUNAL) SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES FROM PERSONAL VISIT
AND OBSERVATION by Charles Nordhoff, ca.
1874, reprint, 439 pp, illus. This is the first classic account of the
utopian communal societies throughout the United States during the 19th
century. In 1874, the author, a former editor of Harper's Magazine, visited
all existing communal societies. He describes and evaluates the communities
and the effects of communal living upon the participants. Includes Economists,
Zoarites, Shakers, the Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian, Cedar Vale,
Bishop Hill Colony and others.
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HC 0-87928-092-1
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$29.95
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 ANTHONY
BURNS, A HISTORY by Charles E. Stevens,
ca. 1856, reprint, 295 pp. An extraordinary story of the extradition of
the fugitive slaver, Anthony Burns, from Boston to Virginia in 1854. Because
several rescue attempts were made by rioting crowds led by Wendell Phillips,
Theodore Parker, Thomas Higginson, Dr. Samuel Howe and other leading abolitionists,
twenty companies of militia had to be called up to restrain the angry protesting
crowds gathered in Boston. A notable case of Northern resistance to the
Fugitive Slave Law.
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HC 0-87928-027-1
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$24.95
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FROM SLAVERY by Booker
T. Washington, ca. 1900, reprint, 330 pp. A widely read and most remarkable
document revealing the history of the African American. The story of a
man's rise from slavery to the national leadership of his people in their
frustrated struggles. This autobiography is a classic in African American
History.
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HC 0-87928-021-2
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$26.95
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