African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877, 4th Edition

Including more than 70 documents that span the history of slavery in America, African American Voices chronicles the widely varied experience of African American slaves. It presents 250 years of the collective life-cycle of an enslaved people through substantial excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters that document the experience of bondage, and supplies comprehensive introductions and headnotes, a visual history of slavery, and an extensive bibliography.