Books like Captivity and Restoration
12 books with a reading profile close to Captivity and Restoration by Mary White Rowlandson, Joseph Rowlandson, Larvae Editions, Timothy Harrington, Caroline D. Grimm, Henry S. Nourse, John Eliot Thayer, John Williams, Henry S. (Henry Stedman) 183 Nourse, John Eliot 1862-1933 Edt Thayer. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
history, memoir
Benjamin Franklin outlines his transition from a printer's apprentice in Boston to a prominent civic leader and scientist in Philadelphia.
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Stefan Zweig chronicles the collapse of European civilization from the late nineteenth century through the start of World War II.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Harriet Ann Jacobs writes under the pseudonym Linda Brent to chronicle her life as an enslaved woman in North Carolina.
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Frederick Douglass recounts his transition from an enslaved child in Maryland to an abolitionist leader in the North.
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Black Boy
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Richard Wright’s memoir documents his youth in the Jim Crow South and his eventual migration to Chicago.
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Twelve years a slave
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Solomon Northup, a free Black man residing in Saratoga Springs, New York, was kidnapped in 1841 after being lured to Washington, D.C., under the guise of traveling employment.
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The Fortunes Of Perkin Warbeck A Romance
by Mary Shelley
history, classic literature
Mary Shelley’s historical novel reimagines the life of the fifteenth-century pretender to the English throne.
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Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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Our Old Home
history, classic literature
Based on his tenure as the American consul in Liverpool, Nathaniel Hawthorne records his observations of mid-nineteenth-century England through a series of biographical sketches and travel essays.
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Lea Ypi narrates her upbringing in Albania during the final decade of the Cold War and the subsequent transition to a market economy.
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Valperga
by Mary Shelley
history, classic literature
Set in fourteenth-century Italy, the narrative follows Castruccio Castracani, a historical Ghibelline tyrant who prioritizes military conquest and political dominance over human connection.
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