Introduction: Southern views of the "Peculiar Institution" / by William Loren Katz -- Narrative of Lunsford Lane; formally of Raleigh, N.C. -- The fugitive blacksmith; or events on the history of James W.C. Pennington -- Narrative of William W. Brown; a fugitive slave -- My life in the south / by Jacob Stroyer -- The life of Moses Grandy; late a slave in the United States of America -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / by Linda Brent