Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an Afr...

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence....

In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educat...

The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book w...

First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two...

Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslav...

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl sh...

Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobi...

This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British ...

Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in Shelby County, Kent...

Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the...

In this collective biography spanning four generations, Howard Covington explores how one prestig...