Literary & Historical Utopias

selections from African American slave narratives

from Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (London, 1789; vol. I)

from Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. 1845.

from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)