The 32 eBooks of slave narratives aren't the only free eBooks available about the black experience in America.
You've heard the names: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Ida Wells-Barnett, Sojourner Truth, James Weldon Johnson, Carter G. Woodson, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes.
The following list contains 25 free eBooks by the individuals listed above and others:
A Slaver Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold
by Kate Drumgoold
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Army Life in a Black Regiment
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
by James Weldon Johnson
The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War
by Joseph T. Wilson
Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Book of American Negro Poetry
by James Weldon Johnson
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of theUnited States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
by Carter Godwin Woodson
The Future of the American Negro
by Booker T. Washington
Harriet Tubman - The Moses of Her People [Illustrated]
by Sarah H. Bradford, Oliver Johnson and Professor Hopkins
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
by Harriet Ann Jacobs
(see a book review)
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
by Annie L. Burton
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
by Sojourner Truth
The Negro
by W.E.B. DuBois
The Negro Problem
by Booker T. Washington
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
by William and Ellen Craft
The Souls of Black Folks
by W.E.B. DuBois
Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage-Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery-Incidents during the War-Her Escape from Slavery
by L.S. Thompson
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870
by W.E.B. DuBois
Up from Slavery: an autobiography
by Booker T. Washington
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