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In 1860, they published a written account of their escape titled Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. One of the most compelling of the many slave narratives published before the Civil War, their book reached wide audiences in the United Kingdom and the United States. After their return ...
Flee North is a biography of Thomas Smallwood (1801–1883), a man who helped hundreds of African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad. The author, Scott Shane, makes the claim that Smallwood was the first to coin the term "underground railroad" in a letter published in 1842. (The origin of the term is disputed.)
Julilly was born a slave on the Hensen Cotton Plantation in Virginia.Her initial happy life was changed when slave traders from the Deep South arrived. Julilly was taken from her mother's arms and moved to The Riley Plantation in Mississippi, where she meets Liza, an injured girl who needs help making it to the land of the free-Canada.
Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by American writer Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle Passage.Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who sneaks aboard a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a ...
It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times and [2] one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time. [3] The book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography with the award committee calling it "an American love story—one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all—one that ...
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London.
Fugitive slave Henry Bibb's family's escape from bondage last eight days. They were seeking refuge in the Red River Valley swamps when armed slave catchers captured them. Around 1837, Bibb escaped slavery and fled to Cincinnati, Ohio. Six months later he returned to free his wife, but he was captured and enslaved again.
Washington Black is the third novel by Canadian author Esi Edugyan.The novel was published in 2018 by HarperCollins in Canada and by Knopf Publishers internationally. [1] A bildungsroman, [2] the story follows the early life of George Washington "Wash" Black, chronicling his escape from slavery and his subsequent adventures.