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Peninsular India, 14th century. The Pandyan Empire is at its peak, its enemies subdued and its people at peace. Having left behind his stepbrother Sundar in the race to the throne, Crown Prince Veera Pandyan is set to rule from Madurai, reputed to be the richest city in the subcontinent. But invisible fractures within the kingdom threaten to destroy it, and a new enemy approaches, swifter than anyone can imagine.

Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in 19th-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North.

SHADOW SLAVE In un mondo devastato dalle guerre e dai cambiamenti climatici, l'umanità viene colpita da una nuova e imprevedibile calamità: L'Incantesimo dell'Incubo. Ed è proprio in questo mondo, che un ragazzo di periferia, Sunny, si ritroverà costretto ad affrontare mostri terribili e minacce ignote in una mortale lotta per la sopravvivenza. Un romanzo Dark Fantasy scritto dalla mente geniale di GuiltyThree, pieno di scontri, misteri e colpi di scena DISCLAIMER Questo audiolibro è un'iniziativa FanMade, senza scopo di lucro. Tutti i diritti sono riservati a GuiltyThree e a webnovel.com

In 100 B.C., the Cimbrian hordes thunder across the dawn of history, clashing violently with the formidable Roman legions. Under the leadership of Chief Boierik and his son Eodan, these desperate pagan tribes battle fiercely for a land to call their own. Despite their relentless spirit, the Cimbri face devastation at the hands of the Romans, culminating in a crushing defeat at Vercellae that leaves only a handful of survivors. Among them is Eodan, a proud young chieftain who finds himself thrust into a life of slavery after losing everything his infant son murdered and his beloved wife, Hwicca...

Dive into the gripping narrative of Charles Ball, an American slave born in 1780, who spent half a century in chains. This extraordinary account, as told to a lawyer who committed it to paper, offers a raw and deeply personal insight into Balls life. (Summary by Tom Causby)

It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place, and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery. But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader. It will be her destiny to come under the tutelage of Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold Regan - now renamed Zaynab, the beautiful one - into a love slave fit for a Moorish king.

"Brother, you have often declared that you would not end your days in slavery. I see no possible way in which you can escape with us; and now, brother, you are on a steamboat where there is some chance for you to escape to a land of liberty. I beseech you not to let us hinder you. If we cannot get our liberty, we do not wish to be the means of keeping you from a land of freedom."

When archaeologist Annja Creed is hired to find the lost city of Promise in Brazil, she is more than intrigued. Legends abound of a magical place where slaves were rumored to have discovered the secret to eternal youth and life. But strangers are not welcome in Promise. Annja soon learns that the residents have gone to extreme lengths to guard their precious secret. Making her way from the steamy port of Belém to the brutal slums of Northeast Brazil, Annja faces unexpected peril, from poisoned arrows to Amazonian anacondas.

Part historical drama, part supernatural horror, and part alternate history, Blood Slaves is an ingenuous and defiant new creation myth of the vampire, one rooted in both justice and the sometimes-violent means necessary to achieve it.

Singer's famous and never-before-recorded novel about a passionate, forbidden love affair between Jew and Gentile in 17th century Poland.

After a long and gruelling conflict, the traitors at last close upon Terra. But time is dwindling for an attack. Both Guilliman and the Lion are returning with all haste, and their armies could turn the tide. The hosts of the Warmaster must unite, for only then can they attack the Throneworld itself. While Mortarion is sent on ahead as the fleet’s vanguard, it falls to Lorgar and Perturabo to marshal Fulgrim and Angron, both now elevated to daemonhood and perhaps beyond even the will of the Warmaster to command.

This compilation comprises more stories of exotic slave training compounds; abduction and forced submission; of a life of sexual servitude—where you must serve your Master well...or else suffer the punishing consequences.

As the Emperor travels the galaxy at the head of his Great Crusade, few events are as important as rediscovering his scattered sons, the Primarchs, and bestowing them as the masters of their Legions. United, a Legion becomes a reflection of its Primarch, both in his strengths and his flaws. For the Twelfth Legion, once the War Hounds and now the World Eaters, the line between strength and flaw is almost impossible to separate.

This exciting adventure gives fascinating insight into the workings of the Roman legal system in a page-turning court room drama. As always, Caroline Lawrence springs new surprises for all the characters and provides motives, means and opportunity for one determined felon. And, as ever, it's up...

The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. Add to that the longstanding problem of a slave labor planet controlled by hostile Mesans in Erewhon's stellar back yard, a problem which High Ridge also ignores.

She is the voluptuous breathtaking exquisite Acte, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Claudius and a slave for life in the royal household. When the virile young Nero first spies her magnificent beauty in the palace garden, he knows he must have her at any cost. Acte is also drawn to Sergio, the handsome gladiator. It is with him that she finds the true, pure love she has dreamed of. But in a loveless world where lust and power rule side by side, Acte's secret obsession with Sergio can me only one thing in Nero's decadent court - doom.

På Djurgården syd for Stockholm er en herskabsvilla brændt ned til grunden, og Livia Seigel, det yngste medlem af skibsrederfamilien Seigel, er som sunket i jorden. Det eneste spor, man finder efter hende, er en udstoppet kanariefugl.I London må Calvin de Laval træffe en afgørende beslutning efter at have været igennem en dramatisk og ydmygende retssag.

In the hush between history and myth, some voices refuse to fade. One of them rises beneath the pines of Virginia—speaking not to a crowd, but to the wind. Shackled in body, unbroken in spirit. A man, not yet a symbol. A voice, not yet remembered. But already unforgettable. The Heroic Slave is Frederick Douglass at his most daring—blending fact and fiction into something fiercer than either. In Madison Washington, he shapes more than a character: he channels the rhythm of revolt, the breath of those who ran, and the silence of those who couldn't. This is not a tale polished for comfort.

The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction, or novella, written by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, at the time a fugitive slave based in Boston. When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for a short story to go in their collection, Autographs for Freedom, Douglass responded with The Heroic Slave. The novella, published in 1852 by John P. Jewett and Company, was Douglass's first and only published work of fiction (though he did publish several autobiographical narratives).