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Saul knew the Law with precision. He trained under the best teachers, walked the straightest lines, and carried scripture like breath in his lungs. His mind was formed around tradition. His identity was sealed by discipline. His confidence came from believing he was right with God and from doing everything required to prove it.

African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.

This is the saga of the family Tobias, who managed to rise from the ashes of the Civil War and transform themselves from plantation owners into a present day textile conglomerate with ties to the highest office in the government. Their span of seemingly unending success has only been made possible with the help of one deep dark secret, so powerful that it could rewrite a nation's history.

Herbert Currington Ridout was born in 1881. His literary life included being a journalist, editor, and short story writer although he also had various jobs in the music business and was later a radio broadcaster on the BBC. He died in 1948.

In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and delightful.

In this volume our classic authors conjure up all sorts of damnations and destructions in literary assaults testing our will to survive and our ingenuity to overcome situations where the outlook is bleak at best and the total extinction of us at worse.