Race and Slavery in America

In the first published novel by a Black American author, the daughters of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson use their wits to try to escape American slavery.

The formerly enslaved Julius tells fantastical tales about plantation life to the incredulous Northerners who have just moved in.

The autobiography of a woman who grew up in, and escaped from, slavery.

As the Civil War rages, a young woman living the North is unaware of her African ancestry until she returns to the South and is immediately enslaved.

Frederick Douglass describes his youth as an enslaved person in Maryland and his desire to be a free man.

An autobiographical account of a young biracial girl abandoned by her parents and forced into servitude in the northern United States.

The only published collection of poetry by Phillis Wheatley, who was kidnapped and brought to America on the ship The Phyllis, has an indisputable influence on poetry and African-American literature but is criticized in modern times as an example of the Uncle Tom syndrome.

The account of a free Black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, from which it took twelve years to free himself.

The autobiography of Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute and a formerly enslaved person.