This book is a compilation of pro-slavery literature and propaganda that was widely circulated in the Southern United States before the Civil War. It...
Ellen Craft's "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is a gripping firsthand account of a daring escape from slavery. In 1848, Ellen and her husband W...
In Old Plantation Days is a collection of short stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar that portray the lives of slaves on a southern plantation during the a...
In "Leben auf dem Mississippi" (Life on the Mississippi), Mark Twain, a well-known American author, shares his personal experiences as a steamboat pil...
