Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

This is a memoir written by a former slave in the U.S. during the 19th century. From the preface: "The author does not think that any apology is necessary for this issue of his Life and History. He believes that American Slavery is now the great question before the American People: that it is not merely a political question, coming up before the country as the grand element in the making of a President, and then to be laid aside for four years; but that its moral bearings are of such a natu...