Born a Slave: Anthology: Collected Memoirs and Interviews

by Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs

This collection includes over 100 slave narratives and more than a thousands transcripts of recorded interviews made with former salves in the first half of 20th

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
Narrative of Sojourner A Northern Slave
The History of Mary Prince
The Blind African Slave (Boyrereau Brinch)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African King (Zamba Zembola)
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft)
Behind The Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson)
Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave (Charles Ball)
Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper
Narrative of Henry Watson - A Fugitive Slave
Slave Life in A Narrative of the Life Sufferingsand Escape of John Brown
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman, a Narrative of Real Life
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina (John Andrew Jackson)
The Willie Lynch The Making of Slave! (Willie Lynch)
A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
The Moses of Her People
Booker T.
Up From Slavery
The Story of My Life and Work
The Story of Slavery
12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Nat Turner)
Thirty Years a From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes)
Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward)
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Henry Bibb)
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson)
The Fugitive Blacksmith (James W. C. Pennington)
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney)
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, a Slave in the United States of America
The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery
Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam (John Gabriel Stedman)
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box, Written by Himself
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell)
Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker (Thomas S. Gaines)
Autobiography of James L. Smith
Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed (Peter Still)
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray)
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (Annie L. Burton)
Aunt The Story of a Faithful Slave
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said
Life of George Henry
Slavery in the United A Narrative of Charles Ball
The Maimed Fugitive
Bond and Free (Israel Campbell)
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
My Slave Life – In Virginia and Kentucky (Francis Fedric)
Buried Behind Prison Walls For a Quarter of a Century (William Walker)
Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life (Isaac D.

20621 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 15, 2023

About the author

Sojourner Truth (1797–November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, "Ain't I a Woman?," was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.