Slavery Books

The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black

Leonard Black

In putting this little volume before the public, it is well, perhaps, that I should speak of my motive. Born and reared in slavery, I was, of course, deprived of education; and believing that I can be..

Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D.

Silas Xavier Floyd

The difficulty of writing good biographies is so great that comparatively few great biographies have been written. All the world is familiar with the unique biography of Johnson by Boswell. It has exc..

Working With the Hands

Booker T. Washington

The effort to make an industry profitable should not be the aim of first importance. The teaching should be most emphasised. Our policy at Tuskegee is to make an industry pay its way if possible, but ..

Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut

James Mars

I came to Norfolk on a visit at the time the war broke out, and some in Norfolk remember that I was once a slave. They asked me about it; I told them something about it; they seemed to take an interes..

The Escape

William Wells Brown

This play was written for my own amusement, and not with the remotest thought that it would ever be seen by the public eye. I read it privately, however, to a circle of my friends, and through them wa..

The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery

James Bronterre O'Brien

This little Work, by an eloquent denunciator of the manifold evils of Profitmongering and Landlordism, whose entire life was devoted to the advocacy of Social Rights, as distinguished from Socialistic..

The year of jubilee

Nathaniel S. Prime

Perhaps the most plausible argument in support of American slavery, (and it is one that has been newly discovered, for it was first introduced into Congress on the Missouri question,) is, that the New..

Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar

A. W. Weston

We have barely indicated the sources and the motives, from, and by which, the donations to the Bazaar are obtained. Suffer us, on behalf of the immediate managers and promoters of this effort, to assu..