The Most Powerful Voices: 10 Influential Slave Narratives
About this book
This collection presents the memoirs that had the greatest historical. These powerful voices unco-vered the unfeasible truth about the horrors of slavery, they changed the way people think and feel about the institution itself, and they had a far reaching influence on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire. This edition The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano The History of Mary Prince Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft Narrative of Sojourner A Northern Slave Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)