James William Charles Pennington was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. Pennington is the first Black student known to have attended Yale University.
The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly black Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist. Ove
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, one of the most famous slave narratives
Slave narrative of Thomas H. Jones published in 1871