Olaudah Equiano "The Oppressed Ethiopean" (c. 1745-31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789).
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and My Bondage, My Freedom (1855).
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery (1901).
The Book of Negroes (2007) (soon to be made into a mini-series) was written by Canadian author Lawrence Hill, inspired by the documents kept by American and British officers of over 3,000 African American slaves, Black Loyalists, who escaped to British lines during the American Revolutionary War. Controversy over the word Negroes in the title led to it being released as Someone Knows My Name or Aminata in some countries. In the Netherlands covers of the book were burned and Hill answered the Foundation "Honor and Restore: heart of the Indigenous and Afro-Surinamese community in the Netherlands" with an open letter in the Toronto Star.
Do we need another movie about slavery? Do we need to hear about another John Brown martyr?
