Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling he...

In 1869, Sarah Hopkins Bradford published Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Though often disj...

By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copi...

Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an Afr...

In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educat...

In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "e;Cherok...

First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editor...

First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two...

Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmat...

Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that...

The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as an extended autobiograph...