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  Every Tone a Testimony: An Anthology of Slave Narratives
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  • Introduction
  • Anthology
    • Walker's Appeal
    • Confessions of Nat Turner
    • Life of Omar Ibn Said, Written by Himself
    • Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper
    • Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States
    • James Williams, Who was a Driver on a Cotton Plantation
    • Narrative of Lunsford Lane
    • Narrative of Frederick Douglass
    • Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive Slave
    • From the Life of Josiah Henson
    • Narrative of Sojourner Truth
    • Twelve Years a Slave
    • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
    • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Mapping Slave Narratives
    • Nat Turner Narrative Tour
    • Frederick Douglass Narrative Tour
    • Harriet Ann Jacobs Narrative Tour
  • Emancipation
  • Bibliography

"Every tone was a testimony against slavery": 
A Short Anthology of Slave Narratives

A collection of primary sources for the middle school level

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Table of Contents

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