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The Frederick Douglass papers

series one: speeches, debates, and interviews
  • Douglass, Frederick
1992
Series 1. Speeches, debates, and interviews. v.1. 1841-46. v.2. 1847-54. v.3. 1855-63. v.4. 1864-80. v.5. 1881-95.

Between the devil and the sea

the life of James Forten
  • Johnston, Brenda A
1974
A biography of the free black man who became a wealthy Philadelphia sailmaker and active abolitionist.

A picture book of Harriet Tubman

  • Adler, David A
2005
Looks at the life of Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Abolitionism

a revolutionary movement
  • Aptheker, Herbert
1989

The underground rail road

a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of s
  • Still, William
1970

Freedom now! The story of the abolitionists

  • Klagsbrun, Francine
1972
Discusses the abolition movement, focusing on prominent personalities involved in the cause.

Anthony Burns

the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
  • Hamilton, Virginia
1988
A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass

excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator
  • Douglass, Frederick
1968
Presents the words of an abolitionist who was devoted to obtaining recognition of black rights and freedom.

A picture book of Harriet Tubman

  • Adler, David A
1992
Biography of the African-American woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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