Biography Books

Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

Anonymous

The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman (1863) was recorded when she was ninety-seven years old. Born a slave in Maryland in 1766, Elizabeth was exposed to religion at an early age, as both of h..

Darkwater

W.E.B. Du Bois

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil is a literary work by W.E.B. Du Bois. Published in 1920, the text incorporates autobiographical information as well as essays, spirituals, and poems that were al..

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is gener..

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Nat Love

Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself; a True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and W..

Frederick Douglass

Charles W. Chesnutt

A concise and well-written biography of the great abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, written just four years after his death. With a chronology and bibliography...

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an ex..

Letters to Helen

Keith Henderson

Excerpts:These letters were never intended for publication. But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved. Then a certain pers..

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on his last Little Journey to the Great Beyond. But the children of his fertile brain still live and will continue to live and keep fresh the memory ..