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Slavery
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Thomas Streissguth |
Seventeen primary documents reflect various aspects of slavery, especially concerning the slave trade, foreign perspectives on America's peculiar institution, the slave's experience, slave resistance… |
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The slave children of Thomas Jefferson
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Sam Sloan |
The author, a journalist and amateur historian, discusses the issues surrounding the claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered children of African American slave descent. Update to the 1992 edition with … |
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Twelve years a slave
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Solomon Northup |
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the Americ… |
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Solomon Northup |
The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.who was kidnapped by slave hunters and sold into slavery where he endured degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years la… |
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Harriet Jacobs
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Jean Fagan Yellin |
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spe… |
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
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Frederick Douglass |
Published in 1845, this pre-eminent American slave narrative powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escap… |
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The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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Robert J. Allison,Olaudah Equiano,Rebecka Rutledge Fisher |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and late… |
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