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• Author(s): Solomon Northup • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Personal MemoirsFirst published in 1853, "Twelve Years a Slave" is Solomon Northup's harrowing memoir of being tricked into slavery. Northup, who ...

• Author(s): Harriet Jacobs • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: African American & BlackPortions of Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" first appeared serially in 1861 in the New York Tr...

• Author(s): Booker T. Washington • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalFirst published serially in the Christian newspaper "The Outlook" in 1900, "Up from Slavery" is the classic autobiogra...

• Author(s): Henry Box Brown • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: SlaveryBorn in to slavery in 1815 or 1816 on a plantation in Louisa County, Virginia, Henry Brown would work as a slave in Richmond until his dari...

• Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Romance - GeneralThe second best-selling book of the 19th century, behind only the Bible, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is Harriet Beecher Stowe's cla...

• Author(s): Mary Prince • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: African American & BlackFirst published in 1831, "The History of Mary Prince" is the fascinating autobiography of the life of Mary Prince, who was...

• Author(s): Olaudah Equiano • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: African American & BlackA remarkable account of early slavery and later freedom, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" is...

• Author(s): Ellen Craft | William Craft • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1860, "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom", by William and Ellen Craft, is the fascinating true story of t...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Keckley • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFirst published in 1868, "Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House" is the intimate au...

• Author(s): Frederick Douglass • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1845, the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" is the memoir of former slave turned abolitionist, Frederick ...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Classics"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is considered by many to be the greatest of all American novels. This sequel to Twain's "The Adventures of...