Voices of Slavery

One of the most potent tools used to abolish slavery was allowing slaves to tell their own stories. Once confronted with the cruelties of slavery, social pressure mounted in white society to end that cruelty. This volume collects the stories of those slaves who helped to change the society in which they lived simply by telling what happened to them. They told their stories.You will find here the stories James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince2) Olaudah Equiano3) Henry Bibb4) Sojourner Truth5) Harriet Jacobs6) Rev. Noah Davis7) The Underground Railroad, by William StillIn addition this volume contains three articles on slavery by Frederick Douglass, one re-telling the tale of his escape from slavery, another honoring John Brown, and the third relating his views on reconstruction in The South after the Civil War.Part of the History Alive! series, this book, like the others in the series, lets eye witnesses to events tell their own story in their own words. The past rings in our ears as we read.