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  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

    by John Swanson Jacobs ...
    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery

    by John Swanson Jacobs ...
    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This student edition reproduces his narrative in full and presents it on its own without any editorial or biographical apparatus.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Illustrated

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts[1]. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one ... Read more

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner

    by Nat Turner ...
    Nat Turner's rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831 marked a turning point in the struggle for the ending of slavery in America. After being tried and convicted of insurrection, Turner's confession and jailhouse statements were published by Thomas Ruffin Gray. This work is considered the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner, though some historians ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materialsThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, ... Read more

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  • Clotel

    or, The President's Daughter

    by William W. Brown ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl describes Jacobs's treatment at the hands of her owners, her eventual escape to the North, and her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery

    A True and Thrilling Tale of Deceit, Intrigue and Breakout from the Notorious Southern Slavery

    by William Craft, Ellen Craft ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" chronicles the daring escape of William and Ellen Craft which is often known as the most ingenious plot in fugitive slave history. While Ellen posed as a ... Read more

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner (Illustrated)

    by Nat Turner ...
    Nat Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. His story is the basis for the controversial film The Birth of a Nation from Fox Searchlight Pictures. The Confessions of Nat Turner is the key primary document supporting historical events. The pamphlet is a first-hand account of Turner's ... Read more

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  • Unsung

    Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

    by Kevin Young ...
    A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin YoungThis is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    He was born into chains—and taught himself to break them. In this gripping autobiography, Frederick Douglass recounts his early life in slavery with unflinching honesty. He exposes the brutal realities of bondage, the violence meant to crush the human spirit, and the forbidden power of education that awakened his resolve to be free. Every page carries the voice of a man who refused silence and ... Read more

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  • Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe

    by Lewis C. Lockwood ...
    Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe by Lewis C. Lockwood is the biography of an American teacher, humanitarian, and a member of the black elite in Hampton best known for starting a school for the children of former slaves starting in the fall of 1861 under what became known as the Emancipation Oak tree in present-day Hampton, Virginia near Fort Monroe. The first teacher hired by ... Read more

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