Olaudah Equiano

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative in the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Jacobs

William Still

Frederick Douglass

Booker T. Washington

Mary Prince

Solomon Northup

Ellen Craft

Sojourner Truth

Jacob D. Green

William Craft

Nat Turner

Elizabeth Keckley

Willie Lynch

Sarah H. Bradford

Louis Hughes

Josiah Henson

This unique collection consists of the most influential memoirs - powerful & unflinching narratives of former slaves and stories of people who helped them; including records and letters which unfold all the hardship, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts to reach freedom:_x000D_ Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Freedom Fighter & Statesman_x000D_ 12 Years a Slave - Memoir of Solomon Northup, a Free-Born African American Who Was Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery_x000D_ The Underground Railroad (William Still) - stories of 649 slaves who escaped to freedom through a secret network formed by abolitionists and former slaves _x000D_ Harriet: The Moses of Her People – Story of the Woman Who Led Hundreds of Slaves to Freedom as the Conductor on the Underground Railroad_x000D_ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)_x000D_ Narrative of Sojourner Truth - leading abolitionist and women's rights activist_x000D_ The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Former Slave, Seaman & Freedom Fighter_x000D_ Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington - the Visionary Educator, Leader and Civil Rights Activist_x000D_ The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave – Memoir that Influenced the Anti-Slavery Cause of British Colonies_x000D_ Father Henson's Story of His Own Life – by Josiah Henson who was the inspiration for the character of Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin_x000D_ Uncle Tom's Cabin, anti-slavery influential novel which made a crucial impact on America's conscience by illustrating slavery's affect on families _x000D_ The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! _x000D_ The Confessions of Nat Turner _x000D_ The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave - Autobiography that Influenced the Anti-Slavery Cause of British Colonies_x000D_ Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft)_x000D_ Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes) _x000D_ Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave (Jacob D. Green)_x000D_ Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)_x000D_ _x000D_

Collection of the Most Influential Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery

Breaking the Chains

Phillis Wheatley

Charles Ball

Lucy A. Delaney

William Robinson

Thomas H. Jones

Annie L. Burton

Old Elizabeth

Lunsford Lane

L.S. Thompson

Slavery in the United States lasted more than two centuries. The adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865 abolished slavery after the American Civil War. The first slaves were forcibly removed from Africa by British slave traders beginning in the early 1600s. Redoshi, later renamed Sally Smith, was the last surviving female slave brought to the U.S. from Africa. A Benoise war captive, she was illegally transported to the US (importing slaves having been outlawed 50 years prior). The last surviving male slave, Oluale Kossula (aka Cudjo Lewis), had been transported on the sale ship and was most likely part of the Yoruba people in Benin. The quality of a slave’s life depended completely on their master’s will. It was considered normal, for example, for masters to rape their slaves, who were considered their property. Slaves who escaped were branded, killed, or punished severely in other ways. Solomon Northup Twelve Years a Slave Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery Frederick Douglass From Slavery to Freedom Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Harriet Ann Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Mary Prince The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Charles Ball Fifty Years in Chains Or, the Life of an American Slave Thomas H. Jones Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave Phillis Wheatley Religious and Moral Poems William H. Robinson From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery Louis Hughes Thirty Years A Slave Elizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes Josiah Henson The Life of Josiah Henson Old Elizabeth Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman Annie L. Burton Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days Lucy A. Delaney From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Lunsford Lane The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. L. S. Thompson The Story of Mattie J. Jackson

Twelve Years a Slave, Up From Slavery, From Slavery to Freedom and others

Slave Narratives Mega Collection. 18 of the Most Moving & Telling Memoirs. Illustrated

'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting...

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Annotated)

Gustavus Vassa, the African: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but also a startling, moving story of danger and betrayal. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

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