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Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs (l. c. 1813-1897) was a former slave, abolitionist...
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Fear of Insurrection - Harriet Jacobs on Nat Turner's Rebellion
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...
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Mary Prince
Mary Prince (l. c. 1788 to c. 1833) was the first enslaved Black...
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T. R. Dew's A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832
T. R. Dew's A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature...
