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8 Influential Abolitionist Texts
  • Introduction
  • Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
  • Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688)
  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789)
  • The Liberator (1831–65)
  • Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1847)
  • Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World… (1829)
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845)
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1851–52)
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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

8 Influential Abolitionist Texts: References & Edit History

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