8 Influential Abolitionist Texts: Media
Essays and letters that helped break fetters.
Images
Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, photograph by George Kendall...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-ppmsca-56175)
12 Years a Slave
Chiwetel Ejiofor (left) as Solomon Northup, a free Black man who is kidnapped and...
© Fox Searchlight Pictures; photograph, Francois Duhamel
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano, from the frontispiece of The Interesting Narrative of the Life...
The British Library (Public Domain)
David Walker: Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World...
Title page of the 1830 edition of David Walker's Appeal...to the Colored Citizens...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Title page of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,...
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, 1845)
Uncle Tom's Cabin poster
Poster for a theatrical production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1881.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-1298)