Slavery & Abolition: The literature that ended an institution

Narratives, novels, and poems that made the case against slavery undeniable — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the abolitionist voices.

In this collection

• Bible Defence of Slavery
• The Drunkard's Child
• Report
• Died of Starvation
• The Contrast
• Be Active
• To the Union Savers of Cleveland
• An Appeal to the American People
• Let the Light Enter!
• Lines to Charles Sumner
• Thank God for Little Children
• Mary at the Feet of Christ
• Vashti
• President Lincoln's Proclamation of Freedom
• Jesus
• Retribution
• The Little Builders
• Our English Friends
• Aunt Chloe's Politics
• Church Building
• The Dying Queen
• Lines
• Rizpah, the Daughter of Ai
• Out in the Cold
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