Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the

Four early American women tell their own stories: Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676, Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knight on her travels in

Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War.

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impa

Fifty Years in Chains or, The Life of an American Slave is a book by Charles Ball. Ball was an American slave born in 1780, who remained a slave for fifty subse