Table of Contents
- Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, David Walker, 1829
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection In Southampton, VA., Nat Turner, 1831
- Life of Omar Ibn Said, Written by Himself, Omar Ibn Said, 1831
- A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery, Moses Roper, 1837
- Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man, Charles Ball, 1837
- Narrative of James Williams: An American Slave: Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama, James Wililams,1838
- The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C., Lunsford Lane, 1842
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself., Frederick Douglass, 1845
- Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Written by himself, William Wells Brown, 1847
- Josiah Henson, from The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, Josiah Henson, 1849
- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828, Sojourner Truth, 1851
- Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup, 1853
- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, William Craft, 1861
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harriet Ann Jacobs, 1861