Black Men in Chains

Narratives by Escaped Slaves

• Author(s): Charles Harold Nichols,
• Publisher: L. Hill
• Pages: 319
• ISBN_10: 0882080032
  ISBN_13: 9780882080031
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , History / United States / General , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... The sixteen selections in this book, all of them written or dictated by escaped slaves, have the vividness and immediacy of personal journalism. They provide the kind of intimate view of life on the slave plantations, slave revolts, the auction block, and the underground railroad that could only emerge from the accounts of those who actually lived under the slave system of the South. A few of the contributors are well known; but most of them are forgotten martyrs and unsung heroes of the fight against slavery. This is the largest and most comprehensive anthology of slave narratives now available for the student and general reader. -- From publisher's description.