Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an Afr...

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence....

In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educat...

The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book w...

First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two...

Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslav...

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl sh...

Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobi...

This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British ...

Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in Shelby County, Kent...

Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the...

In this collective biography spanning four generations, Howard Covington explores how one prestig...

Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the A...

In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as 'Cherokees,' ...

Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the We...

A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee, published in 1852, begins with testimonials regarding Okah T...

Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmat...

Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent...

The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and compose...

After living as a free man for the first thirty-three years of his life, Solomon Northup was drug...

Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that...

By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copi...

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial po...

In 1869, Sarah Hopkins Bradford published Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Though often disj...

Carter Woodson (1875-1950) was a prominent black leader and intellectual of the first half of the...

Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling he...

Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines inf...

Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized ...

The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as an extended autobiograph...

First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editor...

Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a whi...

In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward Kidder Graham as president of the ...

Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North...

Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government

'Over half a century ago historian Hugh T. Lefler viewed Swain as a North Carolina leader who per...

'Over half a century ago historian Hugh T. Lefler viewed Swain as a North Carolina leader who per...