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Enslaved persons' writings, American

  • 10 books
Cover of Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Solomon Northup

Cover of Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

Ellen Craft

Cover of Translation of the Life of Omar ibn Said: Manuscript No. 1

Translation of the Life of Omar ibn Said: Manuscript No. 1

Omar ibn Said

Cover of A narrative of some remarkable incidents, in the life of Solomon Bayley : $b formerly a slave, in the State of Delaware, North America

A narrative of some remarkable incidents, in the life of Solomon Bayley : $b formerly a slave, in the State of Delaware, North America

Solomon Bayley

Cover of The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery

The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery

L. S. (Lucy S.) Thompson

Cover of From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom

From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom

Lucy A. (Lucy Ann) Delaney

Cover of Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Annie L. Burton

Cover of Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South.: Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life.

Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South.: Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life.

Charles Thompson

Cover of The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.: Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.: Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin

Lunsford Lane

Cover of Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

Old Elizabeth