Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America.

Introduction -- Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins -- Narrative of Rev. Horace Moulton -- Narrative of Sarah M. Grimke -- Testimony of Rev. John Graham -- Testimony of William Poe -- Privations of the ...

Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. When he was about ten, Gabriel and his brother Solomon began training as blacksmiths. Although almost ...

Despite widespread and prolonged opposition in many northern cities, President Millard Fillmore affixed his signature to the new Fugitive Slave Act on September 18, 1850. It unleashed a torrent of ...

Introduction / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Introduction to pamphlet edition / by Wendell Phillips -- Massachusetts. Crispus Attucks ; Colored Americans on Bunker Hill ; Seymour Burr ; Jeremy Jonah ; A ...