Slave Narratives: Freedom, written by the formerly enslaved

The testimony that ended an institution — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and the first-person accounts that made slavery undeniable.

In this collection

• You can't Win
• Lofty Actors Withdraw
• The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci
• Ode to Walt Whitman
• In God's Garden: Saint Giles
• Dickens
• Saint Catherine of Siena
• Absinthe at the Cheshire Cheese
• The Skeleton in the Closet
• The King
• William Pinkney Fishback
• Wu Taotsz, the Celestial Painter
• The Foundation of the French Academy
• Junior Achievement
• A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster
• Ultimate Questions
• A Personal Record
• Samuel Butler
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