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The Most Powerful Voices - 10 Influential Slave Narratives - cover

The Most Powerful Voices - 10 Influential Slave Narratives

Frederic Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano, Josiah Henson

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

This collection presents the memoirs that had the greatest historical. These powerful voices unco-vered the unfeasible truth about the horrors of slavery, they changed the way people think and feel about the institution itself, and they had a far reaching influence on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire. 
This edition includes:
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The History of Mary Prince 
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave 
Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson)
Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
Available since: 02/17/2023.
Print length: 1342 pages.

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