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Black Liberation

Firsthand accounts of bondage, freedom, and the long fight for full citizenship.

1789–1920 · 27 books

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Memoir

Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World

Pamphlet

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Memoir

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Memoir

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

Novel

The Heroic Slave

Short story

Twelve Years a Slave

Memoir

My Bondage and My Freedom

Memoir

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Novel

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Memoir

Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Memoir

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Memoir

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South

Essays

Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted

Novel

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Pamphlet

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Pamphlet

Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics

Pamphlet

The House Behind the Cedars

Novel

The Marrow of Tradition

Novel

Up From Slavery

Memoir

Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self

Novel

Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest

Novel

The Souls of Black Folk

Essays

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

Novel

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Novel

The Negro

Essays

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

Essays