A collection of three slave narratives about the horrors of slavery and how they each escaped.

The slave narrative : an American genre / by Arna Bontemps -- The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / written by himself -- The fugitive blacksmith ; or, Events in the history of James W. C. Pennington, pastor of a Presbyterian church, New York, formerly a slave in the State of Maryland -- Running a thousand miles for freedom ; or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery.