Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines inf...

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...

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

Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized ...

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl sh...

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence....

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

Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the...

Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent...

Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the We...