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In Their Own Voices: First-Hand Histories of Formerly Enslaved People

In Their Own Voices: First-Hand Histories of Formerly Enslaved People

By Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, William Still, and Solomon Northup

This boxset of five titles is a forceful reminder of the tremendous impact that the slave trade of the 16th-19th centuries had on those coerced into servitude and, subsequently, their descendants. Through kidnapping, murder and trickery, families were destroyed forever as they were taken from their homelands, split up and treated as less than human.

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Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
Publish Date: 01/31/2021
Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781398805446
ISBN-10: 1398805440
Language: English

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This boxset of five titles is a forceful reminder of the tremendous impact that the slave trade of the 16th-19th centuries had on those coerced into servitude and, subsequently, their descendants. Through kidnapping, murder and trickery, families were destroyed forever as they were taken from their homelands, split up and treated as less than human. But brutal as their experiences were, there are also powerful stories of indomitable spirits, pioneers, courage and, above all, hope within these pages. Inside the boxset, you will find the following titles:
. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
. The Underground Railway by William Still
. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs
Together, they form a powerful lesson that we must never forget.

About the Authors

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) grew up as a slave before his escape along the Underground Railroad to New York City. He became a prominent abolitionist activist and was the first African American to ever receive a nomination for the presidency. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was head of the Tuskegee Institute and one of the most visible leaders of the emerging civil rights movement.

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born Frederick Bailey in eastern Maryland, the son of an enslaved mother and an unknown white man. In 1838 he escaped to the North and took the name Douglass.

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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 18, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.

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William Still (1821-1902) was an abolitionist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known as the "father of the Underground Railroad," Still gave hundreds of escaped slaves refuge.

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Solomon Northup was born a free man in Saratogo Springs, New York in 1808. His father, Mintus, had been a slave in his early life in service to the Northup family.

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