Table of Contents

Introduction.

Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear Children" (1650).

Elizabeth Ashbridge: Some Account of the Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge (1774).

Olaudah Equiano: The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African Written by Himself (1789).

Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography (1817).

Davy Crockett: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, Written by Himself (1834).

Black Hawk: Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk (1833).

Harriet H. Robinson: Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898).

Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (1845).

Harriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Himself (1861).

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 (1898).

Ulysses S. Grant: The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885-1886).

Tunis Gulic Campbell: Sufferings of the Rev. T. G. Campbell and His Family, in Georgia (1877).

Bibliography.

About the Author

Russell Duncan is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marian Morton is a professor at John Carroll University.