An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Chapter 1 A Narrative -of the- Life and Adventures -of- Venture A Native of Africa, But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States Of America.; Chapter 2 Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge.; Chapter 3 Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut.; Chapter 4 The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R. I. with Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island.; Chapter 5 Life of George Henry. Together with A Brief History of the Colored People in America.;