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The Internet Sacred Text Archive
Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about
religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site
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readership of any similar site on the web.
What's Next?
(9/6/2007)
The current long-term project is the two volume
Grihya Sutras, SBE 29 and 30.
Notable Recent Additions
Oriental Mysticism (8/22/2007)
Origins of the Druze People and Religion (8/20/2007)
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika (8/18/2007)
Works of John Calvin (8/17/2007)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis (8/14/2007)
Pahlavi Texts, Part V (SBE47) (8/13/2007)
Pahlavi Texts, Part IV (SBE37) (8/11/2007)
Summa Theologica (8/6/2007)
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors (8/5/2007)
The Earthly Paradise (Dec.-Feb.) (8/3/2007)
Self-Contradictions of the Bible (7/28/2007)
General Ahiman Rezon (7/21/2007)
The Earthly Paradise, (Sept.-Nov.) (7/18/2007)
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (7/16/2007)
The Secret History of Procopius (7/2/2007)
Pale Ink (6/27/2007)
Pahlavi Texts, Part III (SBE24) (6/24/2007)
The Earthly Paradise, (March-August) (6/16/2007)
Hymn to Kali (6/14/2007)
Garden Cities of To-morrow (6/7/2007)
The Story of Utopias (6/6/2007)
The Hermetic Museum (5/31/2007)
The White Yajurveda (5/26/2007)
Great Systems of Yoga (5/19/2007)
The Most Holy Trinosophia (5/15/2007)
The Works of Julius Caesar (5/12/2007)
Pahlavi Texts, Part I (SBE 5) (5/3/2007)
The Hymns of the Atharvaveda (4/29/2007)
The Epic of Gilgamish (4/26/2007)
Bird Parliament (4/12/2007)
Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids (4/12/2007)
Harmonies of the World (4/7/2007)
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We Met the Space People
What's New?
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In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom
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The Old North Trail
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi
(8/29/2007)
Christianity
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The Scriptures
Hypertext Bible Index
The King James Bible
The Vulgate (Latin Bible)
The Apocrypha
Gnosticism, etc.
There is now a separate Gnosticism Index. This will include files on
Gnostic beliefs which were located on this page as well as new material;
no existing files will move.
Pistis Sophia
Translated by G.R.S. Mead [1921].
Corpus Hermeticum Translated by G.R.S. Mead
The Hymn of Jesus, Echoes from the Gnosis Translated by G.R.S. Mead
[1907].
Gnostic John the Baptizer Selections from the Mandan John-Book, G.R.S.
Mead trans. [1924].
Note: While the Mandaeans are not Christians, this text is important for
the study of Gnostic beliefs -- editor.
The Book of Giants A fragmentary Manichaean text.
Apocrypha Arabica by Margaret Dunlop Gibson [1901]
Early Christian
The Gospel of Thomas [ca 200 A.D.]
The Lord's Prayer
Hail Mary (Ave Maria)
The Apostles' Creed 831 bytes
Nicene Creed 1,381 bytes
Latin Mass: Ordinary of the Mass (the Tridentine Ordo). [Latin and
English] 110,236 bytes
The Athanasian Creed 4,239 bytes
The Confessions Of Saint Augustine [401 A.D.]
Writings of the Early Church Fathers
Thanks to the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite (ca. 400 A.D.)
by Dionysius the Areopagite, tr. by John Parker [1897]
A very early Christian mystic writer with Neoplatonist influences.
Eastern Churches
The Book of the Bee Edited and translated by E. A. Wallis Budge [1886]
The Book of the Cave of Treasures translated from the Syriac by E. A.
Wallis Budge [1927]
The Kebra Nagast translated by E. A. Wallis Budge [1932]
Mediaeval, Renaissance and Reformation
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England (731)
by Bede, ed. by A.M. Sellar [1907]
Works of St. Anselm (b. 1033 d. 1109)
by St. Anselm of Canterbury, tr. by Sidney Norton Deane [1903]
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (1128)
Tr. by Anonymous, edited by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten [1901]
The tragic romance of two top Christian intellectuals in 12th century
France.
The Story of My Misfortunes: The Autobiography of Peter Abelard
Tr. by Henry Adams Bellows [1922]
The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (b. 1181 d. 1226)
by Paschal Robinson [1905]
Includes the Canticle of the Sun, a moving prayer of praise to "Brother
Sun, Sister Moon."
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Trans. by W. Heywood [1906]
The legends of St. Francis and the early Franciscans.
Summa Theologica (1265-1274)
by St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. by The Fathers of the English Dominican
Province [1948]
An encylopedia-length work which deals with every concievable aspect of
Catholic theology.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, tr. by Henry F. Cary, (1888)
[1306-21]
The Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1400)
by Anonymous, ed. by Evelyn Underhill [1922]
Meditations of an anonymous 14th century Christian mystic.
Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418)
by Thomas a Kempis, tr. by William Benham [1886]
A contemplative classic of Christian mysticism.
Texts of Martin Luther (b. 1483 d. 1546)
Texts of John Calvin (b. 1509 d. 1564)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe [ca. 1560]
Synod of Dordrecht [1618-9] 84,371 bytes
Heidelberg Catechism 78,054 bytes
The Second Helvetic Confession 205,436 bytes
Church Order (Reformed Churches of the Netherlands) [1618-9] 35,791 bytes
Liturgy of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands 96,092 bytes
Westminster Shorter Catechism [1674] 28,457 bytes
The Westminster Confession Of Faith 86,068 bytes
Westminster Larger Catechism 95,425 bytes
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained by John Milton [1667 and 1671]
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan [1678]
Bunyan by James Anthony Froude [1901]
This is a biography of the author of Pilgrim's Progress.
Angelus Silesius
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer, trans. with intro. by J. E.
Crawford Flitch [1932]
Alexandrines: translated from the "Cherubinischer Wandersmann", Julia
Bilger [1944]
The Interior Castle or, The Mansions, by St. Teresa of Avila [1921]
A roadmap to mystical union with God.
Modern
Unitarian Christianity By William Ellery Channing [1819] 78,508 bytes
New England Primer [1843]
Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ by
William Miller [1842]
Miller predicted that Jesus would return in 1844.
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich
[1843]
The primary source for the movie The Passion of the Christ.
The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White [1858]
One of the earliest documents of the movement which became the Seventh-day
Adventists.
Notes on the Book of the Revelation by John Nelson Darby [1876] (2nd ed.)
The Man of Sorrows by John Nelson Darby [no date (pre-1882)]
Shaker documents
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ by Nicolas Notovitch, trans. by J. H.
Connelly and L. Landsberg [1890]
Did Jesus spend his lost years in India?
The Baltimore (Catholic) Catechism [1891]
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler, John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Bros.
ed.) [1894]
400 Catholic Saints' days from around the year
The Doctrine of the Last Things by W.O.E. Oesterley [1908]
The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life by Henry Churchill King
[1908]
Folk-lore of the Holy Land
by J. E. Hanauer [1909]
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy [1910]
John Wesley's Place in History by Woodrow Wilson [1915]
The Book of Revelation by Clarence Larkin [1919]
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling [1920]
The Gist of Swedenborg by Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch [1920]
The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's 'City of God' by John Neville
Figgis [1921]
Human Nature in the Bible by William Lyon Phelps [1922]
The Theological Declaration of Barmen [1934] 16,737 bytes
The (Episcopal) Book of Common Prayer [1979] 972,615 bytes
External Sites
The community of Christian etext redactors is very active, and
transcriptions of public domain books on the topic are abundant. The
following are archives of public domain etexts about Christianity and
related topics, which contain much more material than we have room or
bandwidth for at this site. Some of these are:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library This is probably the largest general
purpose archive of Christian texts.
Additional Early Church Fathers at the Tertullian Project website. This
dovetails with the 'Early Church Fathers' collection at CCEL.
The Unbound Bible has the best collection of downloadable Bible data files
anywhere. Highly recommended.
Digital Christian Library Dozens of etexts on Christianity, rare Bibles,
and related topics, with many unique items, by a very active scanner who
has contributed to sacred-texts under the handle 'Some Dude'.
The Gnostic Society A collection of shorter texts on Gnosticism. Also has
a collection of Dead Sea Scroll translations.
The Catholic Encyclopeda This is a project to put online this huge work
from 1913.
Project Wittenberg A comprehensive archive of Lutheran texts, of general
interest for the study of Protestantism.
Quaker Heritage Press publishes etexts of rare and out-of-print Quaker
documents.
Restoration Movement Texts. Primary texts of a 19th century American
religious movement, predecessor of Churches of Christ, the Christian
Churches, and the Disciples of Christ, among other groups.
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Native American Religions
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Native American religion, mythology and folklore are covered extensively
at this site:
Aztecs
Californian
Inuit
Maya
Plains
Northeastern
Iroquois
Northwestern
Southeastern
Cherokee
Southwestern
Navajo
Zui
Hopi
South American
Inca
General
These texts cover a wide range of Native Americans or don't fit into one
of the categories above.
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson [1929]
The classic cross-cultural Native American folklore study.
The Soul of the Indian by Charles Eastman [1911] 100,801 bytes
Indian Why Stories by Frank Linderman [1915] 163,221 bytes
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa [1901] 105,552 bytes
American Indian Fairy Tales by Margaret Compton [1907] Authentic Native
American lore retold for children over a century ago.
Buddhism
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Modern works
A Buddhist Bible by Dwight Goddard (1st ed.) [1932]
This anthology has had a huge influence on the spread of Buddhism in the
English-speaking world. An edited (but not watered-down) collection of key
Zen documents, a favorite of Jack Kerouac.
These are modern (early 20th century) compilations of the Buddhist Canon
by Paul Carus, and are suitable for casual readers who want to get a sense
of what Buddhism is about:
Buddha, the Gospel
Buddha, the Word 101,164 bytes
These are collections of files harvested from the Internet on these
popular Buddhist topics:
Tibetan Buddhism: Archives
Zen Buddhism: Archives
Journal Articles about Buddhism
This is a collection of academic journal articles about Buddhism from the
19th Century, contributed thanks to Chris Weimer.
The Smokey the Bear Sutra by Gary Snyder.
This is a much beloved short poem about the relationship between Buddhism
and ecology, written by one of the 'beat' era poets, simultaneously funny
and profound.
The Creed of Buddha by Edmond Holmes (2nd. ed.) [1919]
A Pantheist looks at contemporary Western views of Buddhism.
The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold [1922], tr. by Paul C. Blum
[1927]
A good introduction to the life and works of Buddha.
Southern Buddhism
The Dhammapada and The Sutta Nipta (SBE10),
Dhammapada tr. by Max Mller; Sutta-Nipta tr. by V. Fausbll [1881]
Buddhist Suttas (SBE11)
Translated from Pli by T.W. Rhys Davids [1881]
Vinaya Texts (Part I) (SBE13)
Translated from the Pli by T.W. Rhys Davids and Herman Oldenberg. [1881]
The Ptimokkha and The Mahvagga, I-IV.
Vinaya Texts (Part II) (SBE17)
Translated from the Pli by T.W. Rhys Davids and Herman Oldenberg. [1882]
The Mahvagga, V-X, and The Kullavagga, I-III.
Vinaya Texts (Part III) (SBE20)
Translated from the Pli by T.W. Rhys Davids and Herman Oldenberg. [1885]
The Kullavagga, IV-XII.
The Questions of King Milinda
translated by T. W. Rhys Davids
The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (SBE35) [1890]
The Questions of King Milinda, Part II (SBE36) [1894]
Dialogues of the Buddha (The Dgha-Nikya)
Translated from the Pli by T.W. Rhys Davids; London, H. Frowde, Oxford
University Press [1899]
Volume II of the Sacred Books of the Buddhists.
Buddhism in Translations by Henry Clarke Warren [1896]
This is a often-cited scholarly anthology of translations of key Theravada
Buddhist documents.
The Udna Translated by Dawsonne Melanchthon Strong [1902]
(Redacted by Chris Weimer)
Psalms of the Sisters by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids [1909]
(Thanks to Mary Mark Ockerbloom of A Celebration of Women Writers)
Jataka
The Jataka is a huge collection of fables framed as previous incarnations
of the Buddha, many of which either have parallels or derivatives in
western folklore and literature. Although the Jataka is not considered
part of the canonical Buddhist scripture, it is very popular.
The Jataka, Vol. I tr. by Robert Chalmers [1895]
This is the first of six volumes of the complete Cowell translation of the
Jataka.
The Jataka, Vol. II tr. by W. H. D. Rouse [1895]
This is the second of six volumes of the complete Cowell translation of
the Jataka.
Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [1912]
This collection of Indian folklore, retold for younger readers 'of all
ages', includes many stories from the Jataka, a Buddhist compilation of
fables.
Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbit [1912]
This is another a collection of Jataka stories, fables about previous
incarnations of the Buddha, usually as an animal, retold for younger
readers.
Northern Buddhism
The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King (SBE19) A Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha
Bodhisattva, translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha A.D.
420, and From Chinese into English by Samuel Beal [1883]
Buddhist Mahyna Texts (SBE 49) [1894]
Translated by E.B. Cowell, F. Max Mller, and J. Kakakusu.
This includes the Diamond Sutra.
Saddharma-pundarka (The Lotus Sutra) (SBE 21) Translated By H. Kern
[1884]
She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) by Nagarjuna; edited and translated
by W. L. Cambell [1919]
An influential Tibetan Buddhist text.
Avaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahyna translated
by Teitaro Suzuki [1900]
The Awakening of Faith of Ashvagosha translated by Timothy Richard [1907]
The Gateless Gate by Ekai [Huikai], called Mu-mon, tr. by Nyogen Senzaki
and Paul Reps [1934]
One of the classic collections of Zen Buddhist Koans
Chinese Buddhism by Joseph Edkins [1893]
A comprehensive discussion of Chinese Buddhism.
Buddhism In Tibet by Emil Schlaginteweit [1863]
One of the few 19th century books about Tibetan Buddhism.
The Religion of the Samurai by Kaiten Nukariya [1913]
This book focuses on Northern (Mahayana) Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism in
particular. It includes a wealth of detail as well as very lucid
explanations of Zen Buddhist concepts.
Manual of Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. [1935]
Suzuki is one of the most popular 20th century writers about Zen Buddhism.
This book is an anthology of texts relating to Zen. Includes the famous
'Ox-Herder' illustrations.
Zen for Americans by Soyen Shaku, translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki.
[1906]
A collection of essays on Buddhism, includes The Sutra of Forty-Two
Chapters.
Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. [1957, not
renewed]
Suzuki compares and contrasts Buddhism with Meister Eckhart's mystical
outlook.
Gleanings In Buddha-Fields by Lafcadio Hearn [1897].
The No Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley [1921].
Translations of a selection of No dramas, which have deep connections with
Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and Japanese folklore.
KAKUZO OKAKURA
The Book of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura [1906] 108,498 bytes.
This book discusses the aesthetics of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and its
connection to the Japanese world-view as a whole.
The Ideals of the East
by Kakuzo Okakura [1904]
Learn about the evolution of Japanese art and its relationship to
Buddhism.
Links
For more translations of Southern Buddhist texts, we highly recommend
Access to Insight [External Site].
The Age of Reason
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Critical Views of the Bible
ROGER BACON
Friar Bacon: His Discovery of the Miracles Of Art, Nature, And Magick
by Roger Bacon [1659].
GIORDANO BRUNO
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) L. Williams, tr. [1887 and
1889]
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Jean Paul Richter [1883]
THOMAS PAINE
Common Sense [1776]
Rights of Man [1791]
Age of Reason [1794]
CHARLES DARWIN
Origin of Species [1872]
The Descent of Man [1871]
Voyage of the Beagle [1909]
MARK TWAIN
What is Man
The War Prayer
Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Fly
Letters From The Earth [1909]
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Volume I: Lectures
Volume II: Lectures
CLARENCE DARROW
Facing Life Fearlessly
Absurdities of the Bible
Why I Am An Agnostic
ALBERT EINSTEIN
On prayer; purpose in nature; meaning of life; the soul; a personal God
Conversation on Religion and Antisemitism
Religion and Science
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Bible
African Religion
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South Africa
The Religious System of the Amazulu by Henry Callaway [1870]
Specimens of Bushman Folklore by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd [1911]
South African Folk-Tales by James A. Honey [1910]
Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk Tales by Georg McCall Theal [1886]
The Bantu
Myths and Legends of the Bantu by Alice Werner [1933]
This book covers the Bantu as a whole. Most of the books below also have
material on the Bantu of West Africa.
West and Central Africa
The West African area is important because this is where the majority of
slaves departed for the New World. Hence large elements of West African,
particularly Yoruba, religion (blended with Catholicism) can be found in
religions such as Vodun (also known as Voodoo) (Haiti), Candombl (Brazil)
and Santeria (Carribean). For more information on New World
African-derived religions, refer to the The Santeria page at Ontario
Consultants for Religious Tolerance.
Myths of f by John Wyndham [1921]
Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by R. E. Dennett [1898]
At the Back of the Black Man's Mind by R. E. Dennett [1906]
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria By Elphinstone Dayrell, Introduction
by Andrew Lang. [1910]
Fetichism in West Africa by Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau. [1904]
Hausa Folklore by Maalam Shaihu, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray.
[1913]
This book stands out here because it was actually written by a Hausa, not
a European.
Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People by D. Amaury Talbot [1915]
The Yoruba Speaking Peoples by A.B. Ellis [1894]
Yoruba Legends by M. I. Ogumefu [1929]
African-American
Drums and Shadows Georgia Writer's Project; Work Projects Administration,
Mary Granger supervisor [1940, copyright not renewed]
Coastal Georgia folklore from the 1930s and connections to African
spiritual practices.
Caribbean
Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith [1924].
Jamaican folklore, music and riddles, featuring an indominable trickster
hero.
Rastafarianism
The Kebra Nagast E.A. Wallis Budge, translator [1932].
This work is a legendary history of Ethiopia. It has been cited as
rationale for the Rastafarian apotheoisis of Emperor Haile Selassie.
The Holy Piby by Robert Athlyi Rogers [1924-8]
This is a classic--and very rare--Afrocentric religious text from the
early 20th century which has been acclaimed by many Rastafarians as a
forerunner of their beliefs.
The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy By Fitz Balintine
Pettersburg [1926?]
Another rare proto-Rastafarian text from Jamaica.
The Promised Key By G.G. Maragh (Leonard Percival Howell) [1935?]
A heavily edited version of the previous document, Howell was one of the
first preachers who explicitly preached doctrines similar to later
Rastafarian beliefs, particularly that Haile Selassie was the Black
Messiah.
The Wisdom of Rastafari
This is a short anthology of quotes from Haile Selassie compiled by a
Rastafarian group.
Vodun
Two short articles by Lafcadio Hearn about New Orleans Voodoo. Hearn, a
New Orleans native, also wrote extensive works about Japan, available in
the Shinto section.
Last of the Voudoos [1885]
New Orleans Superstitions [1886]
Here are two books relating to Haitian Voodoo (Vodun). They were written
by an outsider to the religion who was ultimately unable to penetrate its
inner mysteries; however both of these books has strengths as historical
and ethnographic background on the topic:
Voodoo and Obeahs By Joseph J. Williams. New York, [1932].
Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica By Joseph J. Williams. New York, [1934].
To gain a better understanding of the Voodoo religion and its context, I
would recommend the following books [links are to Amazon.com]:
Voodoo in New Orleans, by Robert Tallant; This is one of the best accounts
of New Orleans Voodoo, written in the 1940s by an eyewitness to the
ceremonies. It has a great amount of detail about the practice and its
adherents through history, including the mysterious Marie Laveau. The
gritty, hardboiled writing style is not for everyone, but the information
is authoritative. Rumor has it that Anne Rice herself recommends this one.
The Serpent and the Rainbow, by Wade Davis; The gripping tale of an
ethnobotanist who got in a little too deep while searching for the secrets
of the Haitian zombie formula. The Serpent and the Rainbow was made into a
very frightening movie, directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman
as Wade Davis.
Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston; Zora Neale Hurston was a pioneering
Black woman author and anthroplogist, who was mentored by Franz Boas, the
father of modern ethnograpy. She spent years immersing herself in Voodoo
and Hoodoo lore, wandering the deep South and the Caribbean, both as an
initiate and an observer. This book is a stylistic masterpiece and highly
readable.
Divine Horsemen, the Living Gods of Haiti, by Maya Deren; Maya Deren went
to Haiti in the late 1940s to make a film about ethnic dance; she found
that in order to do so she had to understand the deep structure of the
Haitian belief system, and this book was the result. Deren was unable to
get funding to complete her film on Haiti; her unedited footage was
finally edited by her husband and released in 1997.
History
The Negro by W.E.B. Du Bois [1915]
A great introduction to Black history by a noted African-American activist
and scholar.
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla Dunjee
Houston [1927, copyright not renewed]
A pioneering work of Afrocentric history.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@temple.edu
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