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Henry Box Brown - The Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom
Henry Box Brown (l. c. 1815-1897) was an enslaved African American...
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Sojourner Truth's Escape from Slavery
Sojourner Truth's Escape from Slavery comes from the Narrative...
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Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs (l. c. 1813-1897) was a former slave, abolitionist...
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Fear of Insurrection
Fear of Insurrection comes from Incidents in the Life of a Slave...
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Notes on the State of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) is the only full-length work...
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Poems of Phillis Wheatley and Jefferson's Criticism
Although Phillis Wheatley's poetry found an audience upon publication...
