Slavery Books

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life

Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

The stories, plantation games, and Hymns are just as I heard them in my childhood. I have learned that Mr. Harris, in Uncle Remus, has already given the "Tar Baby"; but I have not seen his book, and, ..

Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life

F. Colburn Adams

PREFACES, like long sermons to fashionable congregations, are distasteful to most readers, and in no very high favor with us. A deep interest in the welfare of South Carolina, and the high esteem in w..

Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter

F. Colburn Adams

IN presenting this work to the public, we are fully conscious of the grave charges of misrepresenting society, and misconstruing facts, which will be made by our friends of the South, and its very pec..

The Sea-Witch

Maturin Murray Ballou

LET the reader peruse the following story with the same spirit in which it was written, and not conceive that it is either a pro-slavery or anti-slavery tale. The "peculiar institution" which is herei..

What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?

Q. K. Philander Doesticks

The negroes came from two plantations, the one a rice plantation near Darien, in the State of Georgia, not far from the great Okefenokee Swamp, and the other a cotton plantation on the extreme norther..

The Rising Son

Wm. Wells Brown

Several of the biographical sketches are necessarily brief, owing to the difficulty in getting correct information in regard to the subjects treated upon. Some have been omitted on account of the same..

Narrative of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown

My book will present, if possible, the beautiful side of the picture of slavery; will entertain you with stories of partial kindness on the part of my master, and of comparative enjoyment on my own pa..

A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley

Solomon Bayley

Solomon is in connexion with that body of Christians, called Methodists; and my last communication from him, sufficiently evinces on what grounds he has believed himself called to the ministry. From t..