Booth had supported the South during the war . He hated Lincoln for freeing the slaves and for suggesting in a speech on April 11 that it might be a good idea to give some blacks the right to vote . . JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION .
For more on the specific concerns raised by manumissions by will, see Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, chap. 18, esp. 373–80, 398–99. In an 1848 case, the Alabama Supreme Court judge J. Dargon declared a will freeing enslaved ...
Young slave girl serving a Sumerian queen risks an escape.
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.
His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage.
The first book ever to be published by a black man,in Britain, this story of Equiano's life from,freedom in Africa through slavery and back to,freedom was a best-seller when first issued,in 1789.
The Blackbirder
As Linda Brent, the book's heroine and narrator, Harriet Jacobs recounts the history of her family and recalls the degradation of slavery, especially the sexual oppression she experienced as a slave woman.
A biography of the woman who escaped life as a slave and then rescued other slaves as a conductor in the Underground Railroad.
"Escape from Texas is the novel of James Robinson, a slave who dreams of freedom in the years leading up to the Texas War of Independence. Confronting his dream are planters who have other plans for Texas."--Back cover.