E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina

• Introduction (with bibliography) ; Note on the text ; Introduction to Keckley and Behind the Scenes ; Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868). ; Introduction to Adams and Narrative of the Life ; John Quincy Adams, Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman (Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872). ; Introduction to Brown and My Southern Home ; William Wells Brown, My Southern Home, or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880). ; Introduction to Delaney and From the Darkness Cometh the Light ; Lucy Ann Berry Delaney, From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, 1891). ; Introduction to Hughes and Thirty Years a Slave ; Hughes, Louis, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897).

E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina

• Introduction (with bibliography) ; Note on the text ; Introduction to Keckley and Behind the Scenes ; Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868). ; Introduction to Adams and Narrative of the Life ; John Quincy Adams, Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman (Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872). ; Introduction to Brown and My Southern Home ; William Wells Brown, My Southern Home, or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880). ; Introduction to Delaney and From the Darkness Cometh the Light ; Lucy Ann Berry Delaney, From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, 1891). ; Introduction to Hughes and Thirty Years a Slave ; Hughes, Louis, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897).

E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina

• Introduction (with bibliography) ; Note on the text ; Introduction to Keckley and Behind the Scenes ; Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868). ; Introduction to Adams and Narrative of the Life ; John Quincy Adams, Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman (Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872). ; Introduction to Brown and My Southern Home ; William Wells Brown, My Southern Home, or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880). ; Introduction to Delaney and From the Darkness Cometh the Light ; Lucy Ann Berry Delaney, From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, 1891). ; Introduction to Hughes and Thirty Years a Slave ; Hughes, Louis, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897).