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

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

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

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

Carter Woodson (1875-1950) was a prominent black leader and intellectual of the first half of the...

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl sh...

Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the We...

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

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

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

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

Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslav...