Table of Contents

Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)

12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)

The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! (Willie Lynch)

The Confessions of Nat Turner (Nat Turner)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (Sojourner Truth)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)

The History of Mary Prince (Mary Prince)

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft)

Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes)

Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave (Jacob D. Green)

Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano)

Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)

The Underground Railroad (William Still)

Harriet: The Moses of Her People (Sarah H. Bradford)

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson)

Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave (Charles Ball)

Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward)

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Henry Bibb)

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (William Wells Brown)

The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson)

A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold)

From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney)

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

Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam (John Gabriel Stedman)

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box, Written by Himself (Henry Box Brown)

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell)

Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker (Thomas S. Gaines)

Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro

Historical Documents

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver (Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot)

Pearl Incident: Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, the Captain (Daniel Drayton)

The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade (Thomas Clarkson)

History of American Abolitionism from 1787 to 1861 (F. G. De Fontaine)

Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (John Dixon Long)

Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston for Burglary

Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (Ida B. Wells-Barnett)

The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts (Lydia Maria Child)

Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

Gettysburg Address

Civil Rights Legislation

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)

Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868)

Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870)