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This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...

The violent struggle over the abolition of slavery in Pequot, Connecticut twenty years before the Civil War.

"On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily's companion and often her conscience - and understands all too well the hazards an educated slave must face. Yet even Ginny could not predict the tangled, tragic...

Examines the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African Americans in the United States.

Explores the life of Frederick Douglass as he achieves stature as a leader in the struggle to transcend the limitations of bondage and race.

Draws from Frederick Douglass's own writings to provide insight into key events in his life, including his escape to New York City with the help of his future wife, Anna Murray, and his work in the abolitionist movement.

A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

This book tells of John Brown and his message that abolitionists had to embrace violence.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglasss story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.

A fictionalized account of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery for freedom in Philadelphia, where she turns her talents to leading others along the Underground Railroad.