100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD – Powerful & Unflinching Memoirs Of Former Slaves: 28 Narratives in One Volume: Powerful Narratives of Liberation and Resilience
by Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Keckley, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Lydia Maria Child, William Still, Sarah H. Bradford, Brantz Mayer, Willie Lynch, Stephen Smith, William Craft, Nat Turner, William Wells Brown, Thomas S. Gaines, Austin Steward, Ellen Craft, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Henry Bibb, L. S. Thompson, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Theodore Canot, Daniel Drayton, Thomas Clarkson, F. G. De Fontaine, John Dixon Long, Joseph Mountain
Twenty-eight unflinching memoirs by formerly enslaved authors recount their lives in bondage and their journeys toward freedom, offering powerful firsthand testimony on resilience and liberation.
About This Book
This volume gathers twenty-eight personal accounts from men and women who endured enslavement in the United States and elsewhere.
The narratives document daily life under bondage, the struggle for liberation, and the challenges of freedom after emancipation.
Contributors include well-known figures such as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and Harriet Jacobs, alongside many lesser-known voices.
Together, these memoirs provide primary-source testimony on the history of slavery and the human drive for dignity and self-determination.
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