Abolition and Aftermath

William Wells Brown (c.1814-84) From ‘Anti-Slavery Meeting’ [Speech by Brown, August, 1854]

Martin Delany (1812-85) From Introduction to Four Months in Liberia: or African Colonization Exposed [1855]

[Rev.] E.S. Mathews (1812-?) From The Autobiography of the Rev. E. Mathews (1867) ‘To William Wells Brown, The American Fugitive Slave’ [1855]

Frederick Douglass (C. 1835-1895) ‘Haiti and the United States’ Parts I and II (1891)

William Craft (1824–1900) and Ellen Craft (1826–91) from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860)

Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) and Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) Excerpt from Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (1854)

Transatlantic Exchange on Abolition as the Union’s Newly Declared War Aim (1862-63)