8 Influential Abolitionist Texts: Quick Facts

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Frederick Douglass

Michael Fassbender as Edwin Epps holds a lantern close to Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup in a nighttime scene from the film 12 Years a Slave.

Olaudah Equiano

David Walker: Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Uncle Tom's Cabin poster

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