Slavery and abolition of slavery

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.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

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.

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

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.

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

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

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

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

After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family.

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

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

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience.

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.

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The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and emotionally charged story of one man's journey from slavery to freedom.

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.

There are very few Anti-Slavery books adapted to the young, yet no field could furnish a more attractive literature for children than this.

This essay was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785 and was influential for Clarkson's further career.

Berea College, Kentucky, had sprung from the labors of John Gregg Fee who, in the midst of turmoil and mob violence, had preached abolition in Kentucky in the years preceding the Civil war and in 1858-59 had established the school to assist in educating young people to a new view regarding slavery.

The telling of the everyday life of a slave on a plantation in Tennessee by one of the family she had served lends a charm to Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave, by Nina Hill Robinson.

This book, here in an edition with both original volumes, is widely considered as Clarkson's most important work.

The narrative of Nicholas Said is one of the most impressive among slaves' accounts.

The subject of this book was a native of Africa.

"e;Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman"e; is a slave narrative, detailing Austin Steward's early life of enslavement and escape, as well as his years of freedom and work at Wilber force Colony.

"e;Pictures of Slavery in Church and State"e; written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.

It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive.

'This monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources, i.

"e;My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me .

History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, insurrections of slaves, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, together with a history of the southern confederacy.

Sojourner Truth (c.

"e;Behind the Scenes"e; is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for breaking privacy about them.

"e;Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman"e; is a biography of Harriet Tubman, written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War.

William Wells Brown, the subject of this narrative, was born a slave in Lexington, Kentucky.

"e;Life and Times of Frederick Douglass"e; is the third and last autobiography of Frederick Douglass.

"e;Narrative of the Life of J.

"e;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver"e; is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer.

This meticulously edited collection has been formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Memoirs:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveMy Bondage and My FreedomLife and Times of Frederick DouglassWritings & Speeches:The Heroic SlaveMy Escape from SlaveryWhat to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, (c.

"e;The Life of Olaudah Equiano"e; is one of the earliest-known examples of published writing by an African writer and the first influential slave narrative of what became a large literary genre.

"e;My Bondage and My Freedom"e; is the second of three autobiographies written by Frederick Douglass.

After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free.

"e;The Underground Railroad"e; chronicles the stories and methods of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

"e;The Indian War of 1864"e; describes events of the Colorado War, fought from 1863 to 1865 between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and white settlers and militia in the Colorado Territory and adjacent regions in Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming.

"e;Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"e; is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave Harriet Ann Jacobs.

"e;Fifty Years in Chains"e; is an autobiography of a fugitive slave,Charles Ball, where he describes his life as a slave under various masters and his service in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the U.