A Life in Chains

e-artnow presents the collection of the recorded testimonies of former slaves, memoirs, historical studies, reports of the life and laws in the south, legislation on civil rights, as well as popular fiction which unveiled the injustice and horrors of slavery to the masses:

Slave Narratives

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Underground Railroad

Harriet: The Moses of Her People

12 Years a Slave

Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith Who Was Executed for Burglary

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

Up From Slavery

Willie Lynch Letter

Confessions of Nat Turner

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

History of Mary Prince

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Thirty Years a Slave

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Behind The Scenes

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life

Fifty Years in Chains

Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb

Story of Mattie J. Jackson

A Slave Girl's Story

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Buried Alive For a Quarter of a Century

Historical Documents:

Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)

Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868)

Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870)

Studies:

Captain Canot

History of American Abolitionism

Pictures of Slavery in Church and State

Report on Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act

Pearl Incident

Novels:

Oroonoko

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Heroic Slave

Slavery's Pleasant Homes

Our Nig

Clotelle

Marrow of Tradition

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

A Fool's Errand

Bricks Without Straw

Imperium in Imperio

The Hindered Hand