Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

E-artnow present the anthology of the most impactful slave narratives. The collection includes the memoirs, letters and biographies of former slaves, with the thousands of recorded interviews made in the South until 1970s:

Frederick Douglass:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom
Harriet Jacobs:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet: The Moses of Her People
Booker T. Washington:
Up From Slavery
The Story of My Life and Work
The Story of Slavery
The Underground Railroad
12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The History of Mary Prince
The Blind African Slave (Boyrereau Brinch)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African King (Zamba Zembola)
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft)
Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper
Narrative of Henry Watson - A Fugitive Slave
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life Sufferingsand Escape of John Brown
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman, a Narrative of Real Life
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina (John Andrew Jackson)
The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! (Willie Lynch)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Nat Turner)
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes)
Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave (Jacob D. Green)
Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson)
Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave (Charles Ball)
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward)
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Henry Bibb)
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
The House of Bondage (Octavia Albert)
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
The Fugitive Blacksmith (James W. C. Pennington)
A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold)
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney)
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, a Slave in the United States of America
The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery
Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam (John Gabriel Stedman)
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box, Written by Himself (Henry Box Brown)
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell)
Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker (Thomas S. Gaines)
Autobiography of James L. Smith
Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed (Peter Still)
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray)
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (Annie L. Burton)
Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (by Nina Hill Robinson)
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said
Life of George Henry
Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of Charles Ball
Josiah: The Maimed Fugitive
Bond and Free (Israel Campbell)
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
My Slave Life – In Virginia and Kentucky (Francis Fedric)
Buried Alive: Behind Prison Walls For a Quarter of a Century (William Walker)
Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life (Isaac D. Williams)
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith
The Life History and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea
A Narrative of the Life and Laborsof the Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley
Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond
Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Joseph Vance Lewis)