The Most Powerful Voices: 10 Influential Slave Narratives

The Most Powerful Voices: 10 Influential Slave Narratives

Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Josiah Henson, Olaudah Equino

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This collection presents the memoirs that had the greatest historical. These powerful voices unco-vered the unfeasible truth about the horrors of slavery, they changed the way people think and feel about the institution itself, and they had a far reaching influence on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire.

This edition includes:

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The History of Mary Prince

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson)

Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)