Autobiography and memoir

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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Casanova, Giacomo. Aus den Memoiren des Venetianers Jacob Casanova de Seingalt [From the Memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt]. Vol. 1, Leipzig: Brodhaus, 1822, preface.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

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Colette. Looking Backwards. Peter Owen, 1975.

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Wharton, Edith. "A First Word." A Backward Glance. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

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Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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Schweitzer, Albert. Aus Meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit [Memoirs of Childhood and Youth]. C. H. Beck, 1924.

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Scweitzer, Albert. Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, translated by Kurt Bergel and Alice R. Bergel. Syracuse University Press, 1997.

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Caesar, Julius. Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentaries on the Gallic War]. c. 58, bk. 1.

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Caesar, Julius. The Gallic War, translated by Carolyn Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1.

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Caesar, Julius. Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentaries on the Gallic War]. c. 49 BC, bk. 3.

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Caesar, Julius. The Gallic War, translated by Carolyn Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1969.

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Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

On slave songs.

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Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845, ch. 2.

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Douglass, Frederick. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, edited by Henry Louis Gates. Library of America, 1994, ch. 2.

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Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Charles W. Elliot. P. F. Collier & Son, Co., 1909.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "The Autobiography." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005, pt. 3.

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Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Charles W. Elliot. P. F. Collier & Son, Co., 1909.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "The Autobiography." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005, pt. 1.