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Slaves

Amos Fortune, Free Man

Elizabeth Yates

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty

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Frederick Douglass

Contains nineteen essays that examine Frederick Douglass's early life as a slave, his role in the abolitionist movement, his work as a civil rights leader, and his legacy.

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Frederick Douglass

Peter Burchard

A biography of the runaway slave who became an abolitionist, a crusader for women's rights, and an advisor to Abraham Lincoln.

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Black Indian Slave Narratives

Presents a collection of twenty-seven interviews from former slaves collected during the 1930s that give personal testimonies of the African-American and Native American relationships in the nineteent

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Runaway Slaves

This book describes the experiences of runaway slaves, black and white men and women who participated in the Underground Railroad, and black and white abolitionists who worked to end slavery.

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Slave

Mende Nazer

The author provides an account of her experiences after being kidnapped from her Nuba village in 1993 by Arab raiders when she was twelve years old and sold into slavery, and discusses how she was abl

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Escapes From Slavery

Stephen Currie

This book presents narratives of five escapes from slavery, each of which was typical in many ways but featured unusual personal characteristics or circumstances that made these trips to freedom extra

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Escape From Slavery

Francis Bok

Francis Bok describes his experiences after being kidnapped in 1986 at age seven from his village in southern Sudan and taken to live as a slave for wealthy Muslim farmers, and tells about his escape

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