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Media of the United States. List of newspapers. The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp. Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ...
Slave narrative. The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist. Over six thousand such narratives are estimated to exist; [1] about 150 narratives were published as separate books or pamphlets.
This is a list of abolitionist newspapers in the United States, published between 1776 and 1865.These publications, most of which were short-lived and had limited circulation, existed to share information that promoted the decline and fall of American slavery.
Henry Walton Bibb (May 10, 1815– August 1, 1854), [ 1 ][ 2 ] was an American author and abolitionist who was born into slavery. Bibb told his life story in his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, [ 3 ] which included many failed escape attempts followed finally by success when he escaped to Detroit. After ...
Moses Roper (c. 1815 – April 15, 1891) was an African American abolitionist, author and orator.He wrote an influential narrative of his enslavement in the United States in his Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery and gave thousands of lectures in Great Britain and Ireland to inform the European public about the brutality of American slavery.
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book depicts in greater detail his transition from ...
Joe Brown (brother) William Wells Brown (c. 1814 – November 6, 1884) was an American abolitionist, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. [1] It is the first of Douglass's three autobiographies, the others being My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of ...