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  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost ... En savoir plus

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  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery

    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This student edition reproduces his narrative in full and presents it on its own without any editorial or biographical apparatus.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers ... En savoir plus

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner

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    Nat Turner's rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831 marked a turning point in the struggle for the ending of slavery in America. After being tried and convicted of insurrection, Turner's confession and jailhouse statements were published by Thomas Ruffin Gray. This work is considered the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner, though some historians ... En savoir plus

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materialsThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, ... En savoir plus

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  • Clotel

    or, The President's Daughter

    Collections series Modern Library Classics
    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American ... En savoir plus

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    par Harriet Jacobs ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl describes Jacobs's treatment at the hands of her owners, her eventual escape to the North, and her ... En savoir plus

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  • Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A True and Thrilling Tale of Deceit, Intrigue and Breakout from the Notorious Southern Slavery

    Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom is a landmark antebellum slave narrative that combines adventure, testimony, political argument, and moral indictment. Recounting the Crafts' daring 1848 escape from Georgia to the North, the work turns disguise, mobility, and literacy into instruments of liberation. Its central episode—Ellen Craft's passing as a white male enslaver while William travels as her ... En savoir plus

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner (Illustrated)

    par Nat Turner ...
    Nat Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. His story is the basis for the controversial film The Birth of a Nation from Fox Searchlight Pictures. The Confessions of Nat Turner is the key primary document supporting historical events. The pamphlet is a first-hand account of Turner's ... En savoir plus

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  • Unsung

    Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

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    A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin YoungThis is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural ... En savoir plus

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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  • Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Civil War Education, Emancipation Oak, and the Fight for Black Freedom

    Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe is a compact but resonant Civil War-era memorial biography, presenting Peake's life as both personal testimony and abolitionist argument. Written in the moral prose of nineteenth-century reform literature, the book recounts her work teaching formerly enslaved "contraband" people near Fort Monroe, Virginia, under what would later be known as the ... En savoir plus

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