This is a collection of narratives of women slaves. The collection includes: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured woman, taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year; Lucinda Davis, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the slave of a Creek Indian, related in her own words; History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself in England, edited and published in 1831; and, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, as written by Olive Gilbert in 1850.