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• Author(s): Thomas Fowell Buxton • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - GeneralOne of the most prominent abolitionists of his era, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton campaigned ceaselessly for the end of...

• Author(s): W. E. B. Du Bois • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: SlaveryBased on the Harvard thesis of DuBois-one of the great black intellectuals of American history-and incorporating analyses of national,...

• Author(s): Charles Ball • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: SlaveryOne of the most disturbing autobiographies ever published in the United States, this now classic tale of African-American life in the late...

• Author(s): Harriet Ann Jacobs • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: African American"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women," Harriet Jacobs states plainly in this riveting accoun...

• Author(s): Solomon Northup • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalIn 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He...

• Author(s): William Wells Brown • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesIn this autobiography, published in 1847, William Wells Brown details his ...

• Author(s): Thomas Fowell Buxton • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - GeneralOne of the most prominent abolitionists of his era, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton campaigned ceaselessly for the end of...

• Author(s): Henry David Thoreau • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England"I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late a...

• Author(s): David Walker | Henry Garnet Garnet • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Motivational & InspirationalThe whites want slaves, and want us for their slaves, but some of them will curse the day t...

• Author(s): Frederick Douglass | William Lloyd Garrison | Wendell Phillips • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Cultural Heritage"Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, th...

• Author(s): Ulrich B. Phillips | John Bates Clarke | Richard T. Ely • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - GeneralAmerican historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) made a career of studyin...

• Author(s): William Wilberforce • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)In An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, fi...

• Author(s): Booker T. Washington • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Cultural HeritageFirst published in 1901, Up From Slavery is one of the classic books from the era of American slavery. In it, Booker T. ...

• Author(s): Olaudah Equiano • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - GeneralPublished in 1789, Equiano's autobiography was the first of its kind to influence a wide audience. He...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Slavery"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them fo...

• Author(s): Frederick Douglass • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: African American & Black - Historical"Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it... I have nothing to lose. If I am caught, ...

• Author(s): Wilson Armistead • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralThe purport of the present volume, in contradistinction to the idea of the Negro being designed only for a servile condition, is to de...

• Author(s): Jesse Macy • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - Civil WarThere is no evidence that there was any direct connection between the publication of the Liberator and the servile insurre...

• Author(s): Frederick Douglass • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: SlaveryI have neither been miserable because of the ill-feeling of those about me, nor indifferent to popular approval, and I think, upon t...

• Author(s): Ulrich B. Phillips | John Bates Clarke | Richard T. Ely • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe basis of this discipline must consist in accustoming your negroes to an abs...

• Author(s): William Francis Allen • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ethnic"It is... already becoming difficult to obtain these songs," editor WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN (1830-1889) wrote in the Introduction to...