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  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    Serier serie Modern Library Classics
    “My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass—abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the ... Læs mere

    36,56 kr.

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Serier serie Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by Kwame Anthony AppiahCommentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret FullerThis Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for ... Læs mere

    36,56 kr.

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl

    I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... Læs mere

    33,44 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    A Landmark Autobiography of Freedom, Truth, and Resistance

    One voice. One story. A nation changed forever. In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, the world hears for the first time the unforgettable account of a man born into bondage who broke his chains—not just for himself, but for generations to come. Published in 1845, this classic memoir became a rallying cry for abolition and remains one of the most important ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Twelve Years a Slave – Enhanced Edition by Dr. Sue Eakin Based on a Lifetime Project. New Info, Images, Maps

    In this enhanced/authenticated edition by Dr. Sue Eakin of the riveting true slave narrative that reads like a novel, you are transported to 1840’s New York, Washington, D.C., and Louisiana to experience the kidnapping and twelve years of bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.  TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading ... Læs mere

    23,10 kr.

  • The Essential Writings

    Frederick Douglass was born in 1817 and lived for ten years as a slave upon a Maryland plantation. Then he was bought by a Baltimore shipbuilder. He learned to read, and, being attracted by "The Lady of the Lake," when he escaped in 1838 and went disguised as a sailor to New Bedford, Mass., he adopted the name Douglas (spelling it with two s's, however). He lived for several years in New Bedford, ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Voices Out of Slavery

    23 First-Hand Accounts of American Slavery

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    VOICES OUT OF SLAVERY is a collection of twenty-three slave narratives dating from the early 1700s to the 1860s.  All of these first-hand accounts of slavery provide valuable insight into the everyday lives of slaves, as well as incredible and disturbing descriptions of kidnappings, torture, and inhumane treatment.  While often disturbing, many of the narratives also include themes of overcoming ... Læs mere

    15,37 kr.

  • Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom: The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery

    The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

    Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William, as no woman would have traveled alone with a slave ... Læs mere

    42,74 kr.

  • Early African-American Classics

    Redigeret af Anthony Appiah ...
    This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in ... Læs mere

    18,07 kr.

  • Biography of a Slave

    In publishing this book I hope to do good not only to my own race, but to all who may read it. I am not a book-maker, and make no pretensions to literary attainments; and I have made no efforts to create for myself a place in the literary, book-making ranks. I claim for my book truthfulness and honesty of purpose, and upon that basis it must succeed or fail. The Biography of a Slave is called for ... Læs mere

    18,48 kr.

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre–Civil War plantations ... Læs mere

    36,14 kr.

  • Tubman, Douglass, and Other Maryland Slave Narratives

    This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland. It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and two others.The difficulties of Harriet Tubman, often called “The Moses ... Læs mere

    33,44 kr.