Enslaved persons' writings, American books

Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave is a first‑person memoir that records the author’s harrowing…

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

Craft, William; Craft, Ellen

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Annie L. Burton

From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom

Lucy A. Delaney

The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery

L. S. Thompson

Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

Old Elizabeth

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin

Lunsford Lane