This collection presents the memoirs that had the greatest historical. These powerful voices unco-vered the unfeasible truth about the horrors of slavery, they changed the way people think and feel about the institution itself, and they had a far reaching influence on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire. This edition includes: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano The History of Mary Prince Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave Twelve Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)