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MANY ROADS TO FREEDOM: |
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Accounts of the lives of escaped
and former slaves performed the valuable service of making the horrors of
slavery real to their readers. Those written during the pre-war period
were powerful propaganda tools in the struggle for abolition. Those
written after the end of slavery also offer valuable insight and witness
to the experience of slavery in America. |
My Bondage and My Freedom [pdf, 20.7
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by Frederick Douglass |
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Biographies Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century; with a history of her labors and correspondence, drawn from her "Book of Life" [pdf, 8.0 MB] by Olive Gilbert
Rochester's Frederick Douglass, Part One
Rochester's Frederick Douglass, Part Two |