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  • The Writings of Thomas Smallwood

    by Thomas Smallwood, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A long-forgotten Black abolitionist who liberated captive workers by the wagonload, brilliantly satirized slaveholders, and gave the underground railroad its name.A Penguin Classic**Thomas Smallwood was a shoemaker by day and an organizer of mass escapes from slavery by night. Twelve years after purchasing his freedom, Smallwood took to the press and, over a sixteen-month stretch starting in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Writings of Thomas Smallwood

    by Thomas Smallwood, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    A long-forgotten Black abolitionist who liberated captive workers by the wagonload, brilliantly satirized slaveholders, and gave the underground railroad its name.Thomas Smallwood was a shoemaker by day and an organizer of mass escapes from slavery by night. Twelve years after purchasing his freedom from slavery, Smallwood took to the press and, over a 16-month stretch starting in 1842, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • The Underground Rail Road

    by William Still ...
    Detailed accounts of escapes from slavery. First published in 1872. According to Wikipedia: "William Still (October 7, 1821 July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist.' The Preface begins: "Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass, Gregory Stephens ...
    Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre–Civil War plantations ... Read more

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    by Frederick Douglass ...
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