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In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, John Mifflin Brown wrote to the paper praising its editor Elisha Weaver: "It takes our Western boys to lead off."

Weaver's story, though, like many of the contributions of early black literature outside of the urban Northeast, has almost vanished. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Weaver who have been left off maps drawn by historians and literary critics. Individual chapters restore to consideration black literary locations in antebellum St. Louis, antebellum Indiana, Reconstruction-era San Francisco, and several sites tied to the Philadelphia-based Recorder during and after the Civil War.

In conversation with both archival sources and contemporary scholarship, Unexpected Places calls for a large-scale rethinking of the nineteenth-century African American literary landscape. In addition to revisiting such better-known writers as William Wells Brown, Maria Stewart, and Hannah Crafts, Unexpected Places offers the first critical considerations of important figures including William Jay Greenly, Jennie Carter, Polly Wash, and Lizzie Hart. The book's discussion of physical locations leads naturally to careful study of how region is tied to genre, authorship, publication circumstances, the black press, domestic and nascent black nationalist ideologies, and black mobility in the nineteenth century. ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the 1990 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award. ... Read more

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The simplified retelling is great for young children
"Fables: Best of Aesop's Fables" is well-written and apt for younger children. The prose is appropriately spare, and makes it easy to read aloud to young children, and is not too daunting for early readers. The book contains 27 classic tales of Aesop such as "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Fox and The Crow", "The Boy who Cried Wolf", "The Fox and The Grapes", "The Lion and The Mouse", and many more. I have a 5-year-old preschooler and was eager to share the timeless fables of Aesop with her, and this fit the bill nicely. She was able to follow the stories, and understand the moral behind each story. The illustrations are quite restrained though well-done (though I would have preferred brighter colors). I'd also recommend Aesop's Fables (Stories for Young Children) which has beautiful illustrations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on March 1, 1993. The length of the article is 7699 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Keeping moral space open: new images of ethics consulting.
Author: Margaret Urban Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1993
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v23Issue: n2Page: p33(8)

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Her first book and an entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6316 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v27Issue: n1Page: p38(7)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6315 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Practical Guilt.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v27Issue: n1Page: p38(7)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6315 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sharing Responsibility.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v27Issue: n1Page: p38(7)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6316 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Responsibility Matters. (book reviews)
Author: Margaret Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v27Issue: n1Page: p38(7)

Article Type: Book Review

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It took a long time to stop laughing at Margaret Walker's 'Cucumber Sandwiches and Fishnet Tights'. Now she's doing it all over again. Sorry, we know you ran out of tissues to dry your eyes; you'll just have to get some more now. This time it's Swarfega instead of cucumber in the sandwiches. And her prostitute's jacket instead of the fishnet tights. Expect the unexpected with this delightful romp through a lifetime's memories of holidaying with vicar husband, Michael. After all, this is a vicar's wife whose knickers fell down in front of the Archbishop of York! And you have to remember that Margaret is not the wife of any old vicar. No. She is the wife of the sort of vicar that gets stopped by the police while on his bike wearing jingling jesters' shoes and a makeshift turban. Absolutely brilliant! ... Read more