A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.

Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.

A brief biography of the abolitionist and women's rights activist who spent twenty-eight years of her life as a slave.

"Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, was one of the most important leaders in the anti-slavery movement. Before she fought for freedom and changed American history, she was a young enslaved girl who wanted a better life for herself and for all Black people. She overcame many incredible challenges as she bravely stood up for equality and justice."--

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans. In Slavery Time, when Hope was a seed waiting to be planted, Isabella looked at the night sky and dreamed of freedom. She could not read or write. She had few legal protections....

"'Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.' The prophetic words of abolitionist, writer, and social reformer Frederick Douglass live on in his speeches and books of autobiography. This speech, delivered on July 5, 1852 was an address to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass grew up enslaved and deprived of rights and liberty and argued that the American values of freedom and liberty for some, but not...

A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman. This shortened version of the famous abolitionist's 1845 autobiography dramatizes the abomination of slavery & the struggle of a man to break free. Frederick Douglass's own words are compelling, especially since we know that he learned to read & write in defiance of the laws of his time. Excerpts in this book tell of Douglass's...

"A biography of Frederick Douglass covering his origins as slave and journey to becoming an abolitionist leader"--

A biography of Sojourner Truth, who fought for the abolition of slavery and women's rights in nineteenth-century America.

A biography of a former slave who was active in the anti-slavery movement, as a fugitive in Canada, a "stationmaster" on the Underground Railroad, a supporter of John Brown, and a recruiter for "black regiments."