The census and slavery

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

1846

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1876

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

1845

Twelve years a slave

Solomon Northup

1853

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1850

My bondage and my freedom

Frederick Douglass

1815

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

1900

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs

1861