Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies

“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times

“A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly

“This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the...