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

Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobi...

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

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

This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British ...

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial po...

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

After living as a free man for the first thirty-three years of his life, Solomon Northup was drug...

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

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

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

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