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Description
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The Light and Truth of Slavery
by
Aaron |
"Reader, here is the picture of the poor, way-faring, degraded Aaron.
Now reader, Aaron wants you to buy this book. I don't want you to buy it
merely to read it through, I want you to buy it and I want you to read it, not for
to lay it up in your head, but to lay it up in your heart, and then you will
remember the poor way-faring Bondman."
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The Future of the Colored Race in America
by
William Aikman |
Views of slavery and the Civil War by the Pastor of the Hanover Street
Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth
by
Charles Alexander |
"In this book is written the marvelous and inspiring life-story of a man of
the Negro race who rose up from the most abject condition of birth and environment
to dignity and honor, power and authority, before the snows of the winter age had
whitened his head."
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Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson
by
William J. Anderson |
Twenty-four years a slave, sold eight times! In jail sixty times!! Whipped
three hundred times!!! or The Dark Deeds of American Slavery revealed containing
scriptural views of the origin of the Black and of the White man. Also, a
simple and easy plan to abolish slavery in the United States. Together with
an account of the services of Colored Men in the Revolutionary War -- Day and
date, and interesting facts.
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Frederick Douglass
by
Charles Waddell Chesnutt |
"Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part on the
world's stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of the size of this, to do
more than touch upon the salient features of his career, to suggest the respects
in which he influenced the course of events in his lifetime, and to epitomize for
the readers of another generation the judgment of his contemporaries as to his
genius and his character."
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Unwritten History
by
Levi Jenkins Coppin |
"Intermingled with this "Unwritten History" is the story of my life. Being
all from memory, except here and there the verification of a date, there may be
some repetitions. Of course much of the "Story" is omitted, but, things that
impressed me most, and facts that seem to me most important among the "Unwritten"
things, are noted. Those who are fond of reading novels about men who never lived,
and things that never did and never will happen, may enjoy a change to something
that is historical and real. If the example of some of the worthy ones mentioned
inspires someone else, the object of the author is accomplished."
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
by
William Craft |
The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery. Having heard while in
Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the
American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness;" we could not understand by what right we were held as
"chattels." Therefore, we felt perfectly justified in undertaking the dangerous
and exciting task of "running a thousand miles" in order to obtain those rights
which are so vividly set forth in the Declaration.
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My Escape from Slavery
by
Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass was a very popular and influential speaker. He provided
impetus to the abolitionist movement. Born a slave, in 1838 Douglas escaped to
Massachusetts where he was influenced by William Lloyd Garrison to become active
in the anti-slavery cause.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave
by
Frederick Douglass |
"This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great
eloquence and power; but I think the most thrilling one of them all is the
description DOUGLASS gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting
his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman, on the banks of the
Chesapeake Bay--viewing the receding vessels as they flew with their white wings
before the breeze, and apostrophizing them as animated by the living spirit of
freedom." -- Wm. Lloyd Garrison
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Reconstruction
by
Frederick Douglass |
"Whether the tremendous war so heroically fought and so victoriously ended
shall pass into history a miserable failure, barren of permanent results, ... or
whether, on the other hand, we shall, as the rightful reward of victory over
treason, have a solid nation, entirely delivered from all contradictions and
social antagonisms, based upon loyalty, liberty, and equality, ..."
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The Story of Archer Alexander
by
William Greenleaf Eliot |
"The following narrative was prepared without intention of publication; but
I have been led to think that it may be of use, not only as a reminiscence of the
"war of secession," but as a fair presentation of slavery in the Border States for
the twenty or thirty years preceding the outbreak of hostilities. I am confirmed
in this view by the fact, that, on submitting the manuscript to a leading
publishing-house in a Northern city, it was objected to, among other reasons, as
too tame to satisfy the public taste and judgment. But, from equally intelligent
parties in a city farther south, the exactly opposite criticism was made, as if a
too harsh judgment of slavery and slave-holders was conveyed, so that its
publication would be prejudicial to those undertaking it."
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Pictures of Slavery in Church and State
by
John Dixon Long |
"I am from the masses, and have lived and labored with them. I love and
sympathize with the oppressed of all classes and colors. Yet I honor the rich, the
wise, the learned, and those high in authority. My design is not to array the poor
against the rich, or the colored against the white; but to array all classes
against slavery as it exists in the Southern States of this Union."
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The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm
by
Jesse Macy |
The historical roots and the development of the movement that precipitated
the Civil War.
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Thoughts upon Slavery in "A Collection of Religious Tracts"
by
John Wesley |
"By slavery I mean domestic slavery, or that of a servant to a
master. A late ingenious writer well observes, "The variety of forms in which
slavery appears, makes it almost impossible to convey a just notion of it, by way
of definition."
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Our Nig
by
Harriet E. Wilson |
Sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North,
showing that slavery's shadows fall even there. |
