Slavery and abolition of slavery

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer.

Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass'' magazine articles: "My Escape from Slavery," and "Reconstruction," as well as his address "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.

Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written.

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.

Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

Truth spoke about abolition, women''s rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form.

Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

In Frederick Douglass'' autobiography ''My Bondage and My Freedom'' we can see the power of literacy and belief.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner''s confessions, published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Dark like the skies on a moonless night, this is the color of our skin.

Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper.

The Heroic Slave (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith.

Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful abolitionist.

Originally published in 1847, William W.

Sojourner Truth, one of the most revered figures in American history, explains her road to liberation, spiritual enlightenment and the development of her feminist values.

Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved ones.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom's Cabin that features critical information supporting the brutally honest portrayal of institutional slavery.

"e;This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.

"e;A moving, vital testament.

The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

The marked interest of the French in Quakerism and Penn's colony during the eighteenth century, as shown in their writings.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and statesman.

Anton de Kom s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism.

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history s most monstrous crimes: slavery.

Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest Warthe Civil Warwith this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history.

The powerful stories of enslaved women who waged lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance.

For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color.

"e;Engaging unique sources .

The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down.

Although by common consent the greatest theologian of the Anglican tradition, Richard Hooker is little known in Protestant circles more generally, and increasingly neglected within the Anglican Communion.

In 2012, the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina declared its independence from the Episcopal Church.