“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

― Abraham Lincoln.

Recollections of life on a plantation pre-Civil War, a thrilling slave escape story, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, a famous essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, a survey of ‘Christian slavery’ and The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chestnut – it’s all here and more in Slave Narrative Six Pack 5:

• Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball.


• Cordelia Loney’s Escape by William Still.


• An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism by Catharine Esther Beecher.


• The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt.


• Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War N. B. De Saussure.


• American Scenes, and Christian Slavery - A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Ebenezer Davies.

Includes image gallery.