This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves and the stories of people who have helped them. With their powerful & unflinching stories, they changed people's convictions and shook the very foundation of slavery:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

The Underground Railroad

The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave!

Confessions of Nat Turner

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs

Harriet: The Moses of Her People

History of Mary Prince

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, by William and Ellen Craft

Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes

Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

Behind The Scenes - 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House, by Elizabeth Keckley

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life

Fifty Years in Chains, by Charles Ball

Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman, by Austin Steward

Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb

Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

Story of Mattie J. Jackson

A Slave Girl's Story, by Kate Drumgoold

From the Darkness Cometh the Light, by Lucy A. Delaney

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy

Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Buried Alive For a Quarter of a Century - Life of William Walker

Pictures of Slavery in Church and State

Dying Speech of Stephen Smith Who Was Executed for Burglary

Life of Joseph Mountain

Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave

Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act

Captain Canot

Pearl Incident: Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton

History of Abolition of African Slave-Trade

History of American Abolitionism