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The Memories of Slavery - Complete Collection - Thousands of Recorded Interviews Memoirs & Narratives - cover

The Memories of Slavery - Complete Collection - Thousands of Recorded Interviews Memoirs & Narratives

Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Sojourner Truth, Aphra Behn, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Stephen Smith, Louis Hughes, Elizabeth Keckley, Nat Turner, Mary Prince, OLAUDAH EQUIANO, Charles Ball, Willie Lynch, John Gabriel Stedman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, William Still, Henry Bibb, Josiah Henson, Brantz Mayer, Moses Grandy, Sarah H. Bradford, Jacob D. Green, Austin Steward, L. S. Thompson, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, Theodore Canot, Daniel Drayton, Thomas Clarkson, F. G. De Fontaine, John Dixon Long, Joseph Mountain, Administration Work Projects

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This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) The Underground Railroad Harriet Jacobs: The Moses of Her People Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! The Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth The History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William & Ellen Craft) Thirty Years a Slave (Louis Hughes) Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Fifty Years in Chains (Charles Ball) Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward) Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave  The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson) A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold) From the Darkness Cometh the Light (Lucy A. Delaney) Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, a Slave in the United States of America Narrative of Joanna Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley Buried Alive  Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain Documents: The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism from 1787-1861 Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment  Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment  ...
Disponibile da: 13/12/2023.
Lunghezza di stampa: 13589 pagine.

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