Slave narratives |
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- Slave Narrative Collection
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Individuals by continent of enslavement | Africa |
- Robert Adams (c. 1790–?)
- Francis Bok (b. 1979)
- James Leander Cathcart (1767–1843)
- Ólafur Egilsson (1564–1639)
- Petro Kilekwa (late 19th c.)
- Elizabeth Marsh (1735–1785)
- Maria ter Meetelen (1704–?)
- Mende Nazer (b. 1982)
- Hark Olufs (1708–1754)
- Thomas Pellow (1705–?)
- Joseph Pitts (1663 – c. 1735)
- Guðríður Símonardóttir (1598–1682)
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Asia |
- Brigitta Scherzenfeldt (1684–1736)
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Europe |
- Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733)
- Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 Nigeria – 31 March 1797 Eng)
- Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c. 1705 Bornu – 1775 Eng)
- Jean Marteilhe (1684-1777)
- Roustam Raza (1783–1845)
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Ottoman Empire |
- Johann Schiltberger
- Konstantin Mihailović
- George of Hungary
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North America: Canada |
- Marie-Joseph Angélique (c. 1710 Portugal – 1734 Montreal)
- John R. Jewitt (1783 England – 1821 United States)
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North America: Caribbean |
- Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854, Cuba)
- Esteban Montejo (1860–1965, Cuba)
- Mary Prince (c. 1788 Bermuda – after 1833)
- Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766 Saint-Dominque – June 30, 1853 NY)
- Marcos Xiorro (c. 1819 – ???, Puerto Rico)
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North America: United States |
- Sam Aleckson
- Jordan Anderson
- William J. Anderson
- Jared Maurice Arter
- Solomon Bayley
- Polly Berry
- Henry Bibb
- Leonard Black
- James Bradley (1834)
- Henry "Box" Brown
- John Brown
- William Wells Brown
- Peter Bruner (1845 KY – 1938 OH)
- Ellen and William Craft
- Hannah Crafts
- Lucinda Davis
- Noah Davis
- Lucy Delaney
- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
- Frederick Douglass
- Kate Drumgoold
- Jordan Winston Early (1814 – after 1894)
- Sarah Jane Woodson Early
- Peter Fossett (1815 Monticello–1901)
- David George
- Moses Grandy
- William Green (19th century MD)
- William Grimes
- Josiah Henson
- Fountain Hughes (1848/1854 VA – 1957)
- John Andrew Jackson
- Harriet Jacobs
- Thomas James
- John Jea
- Paul Jennings (1799–1874)
- Elizabeth Keckley
- Boston King
- Lunsford Lane
- J. Vance Lewis
- Jermain Wesley Loguen
- James Mars (1790–1880)
- Solomon Northup
- Greensbury Washington Offley
- John Parker (1827 VA – 1900)
- William Parker
- James Robert
- Moses Roper
- Omar ibn Said
- William Henry Singleton
- James Lindsay Smith
- Venture Smith
- Austin Steward (1793 VA – 1860)
- Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766 Saint-Dominque – 1853 NY)
- Harriet Tubman
- Wallace Turnage
- Bethany Veney
- Booker T. Washington
- Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory)
- Harriet E. Wilson
- Zamba Zembola (b. c. 1780 Congo)
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South America |
- Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua (1845–1847, Brazil)
- Miguel de Buría (? Puerto Rico – 1555 Venezuela)
- Osifekunde (c. 1795 Nigeria – ? Brazil)
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Non-fiction books |
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
- The Narrative of Robert Adams (1816)
- American Slavery as It Is (1839)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
- The Life of Josiah Henson (1849)
- Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
- My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
- The Underground Railroad Records (1872)
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
- Up from Slavery (1901)
- Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (1936–38)
- The Peculiar Institution (1956)
- The Slave Community (1972)
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018)
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Fiction/novels |
- Oroonoko (1688)
- Sab (1841)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- The Heroic Slave (1852)
- Clotel (1853)
- The Bondwoman's Narrative (c. 1853 – c. 1861)
- Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
- Our Nig (1859)
- Jubilee (1966)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976)
- Underground to Canada (1977)
- Kindred (1979)
- Dessa Rose (1986)
- Beloved (1987)
- Middle Passage (1990)
- Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993)
- Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (1996)
- Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)
- Walk Through Darkness (2002)
- The Known World (2003)
- Unburnable (2006)
- The Book of Negroes (2007)
- The Underground Railroad (2016)
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Young adult books |
- Amos Fortune, Free Man (1951)
- I, Juan de Pareja (1965)
- Copper Sun (2006)
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Essay |
- To a Southern Slaveholder (1848)
- A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
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Plays |
- The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858)
- The Octoroon (1859)
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Documentaries | |
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Related |
- Abolitionism in the United States
- African-American literature
- Anti-Tom novels
- Atlantic slave trade
- Captivity narrative
- Caribbean literature
- Films featuring slavery
- Slavery in the United States
- Songs of the Underground Railroad
- Treatment of slaves in the United States
- List of last surviving American enslaved people
- Book of Negroes (1783)
- Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book (1847)
- Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon (2008)
- Slave Songs of the United States (1867)
- Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery (2002)
- The Hemingses of Monticello (2008)
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