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A Woman’s Wartime Journal

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

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

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

Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave

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

Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as &quote;Deadwood Dick,&quote; by Himself

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

Experience of a Slave in South Carolina

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

Indians of North Carolina

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

Slave Songs of the United States

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

The History of the Negro Church

Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles

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

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America

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

Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky

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

Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery

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