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The record of civil disobedience by African Americans begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away, and of how civil disobedience, first suggested in America by Henry Thoreau, crossed oceans to influence Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose thinking in turn attracted a divinity student named Martin Luther King, Jr.

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These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly-priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of Slavery by John S.

Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees encountered at least some racism among Canadian citizens, many of those same refugees also thrived under the auspices of the Canadian government, which worked to protect blacks from the U.S. slaveowners who sought to re-enslave them. This work brings to light the life stories of several nineteenth-century black refugees who managed to survive in th...

A tale of revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship and the story of the slaves' heroic leader, Madison Washington.

Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. "A colorful yet balanced portrait." William L. Van Deburg.

On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole was transporting slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans. A band of slaves led by Marion Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassua harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves aboard, touching off a diplomatic squabble and continuing legal ramifications.