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Excerpt from St. Domingo, Its Revolutions and Its Patriots: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Metropolitan Athenæum, London, May 16, and at St. Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854As in all countries where involuntary servitude exists, morality was at a low stand. Owing to the amalga mation of whites with blacks, there arose a class known as mulattoes and quadroons. This class, though allied to the whites by the tenderest ties of natu...

Excerpt from Clotelle or the Colored Heroine, A Tale of the Southern StatesWith the exception of the last chapters, this work was written before the breaking out of the recent rebellion. Although romantic in many of its details, it is, nevertheless, a truthful description of scenes which occurred in the places which are given.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotte...

Excerpt from Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive SlaveThis amount is just half that I paid for him. -now, if this offer suits Mr. Brown, and the Anti - Slavery Society of Boston, or Massachusetts, let me know, and I will give you the name of my agent in Boston, and forward the papers, to be given to William W. Brown as soon as the money is paid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery MeetingsThe mighty dead that ¿ag unrolled, They bathed it in the heaven's own blue They sprinkled stars upon each fold, And gave it as a trust to you And now that glorious banner waves In shame above three millions slaves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprod...

Excerpt from The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His AchievementsThe calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation. They de light to descant upon the natural inferiority of the blacks, and claim that we were destined only for a servile condition, ...

Excerpt from The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People AbroadBritain, and from their favorable criticisms I have been induced to offer it to the American public, tional chapters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His FidelityNO doubt, errors in fact and in judgment will be dis covered, which I shall be ready to acknowledge, and correct in subsequent editions. The work might have been swelled to double its present size, but I did not feel bound to introduce an account of every little skirmish in which colored men were engaged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

Excerpt from My Southern Home, or the South and Its PeopleNo attempt has been made to create heroes or heroines, or to appeal to the imagination or the heart.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

Excerpt from Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm, Wells Brown From American Slavery Written by HimselfIn putting forth the eighth edition of this little book, I cannot but express a surprise that a work written hastily, and that too by one who never had a day's schooling, should have met with so exten sive a sale.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotte...

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This is the remarkable story of two trips by a fugitive slave: his dramatic andesperate journey up the Mississippi to the North into freedom, and his glorious voyage as an eloquent ambassador of the abolitionists to Europe. Includes two books in one. Illustrated.

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