Auburn, and Buffalo, New York, and London, 1853 John Brown, Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England, 1855 The Life of John Thompson, A Fugitive Slave, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1855 Kate E. R. Pickard, The Kidnapped and the Ransomed, Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery, New York, 1856 Jermain Wesley Loguen, The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman, a Narrative of Real Life, 1859 Ellen and William Craft, Running a thousand Miles for Freedom, or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, London, 1860 Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Boston, 1861 John Andrew Jackson, The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, London, 1862 Jacob D. Green, Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky, Huddersfield, 1864 "Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave", The Emancipator, August 23, September 13, September 20, October 11, October 18, 1838, http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/runaway/menu.html, retrieved 09/15/2014 Tales of progress Following the defeat of the slave states of the Confederate South, the authors had less need to convey the evils of slavery. Some gave a sentimental account of plantation life and ended with the narrator adjusting to the new life of freedom. The emphasis of writers shifted conceptually toward a recounting of individual and racial progress rather than securing freedom. Examples include: James Mars, The Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, Hartford, 1864 Paul Jennings, A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, 1865 William Parker, The Freedman's Story, published in The Atlantic Monthly, 1866 Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, 1868 William Still, The Underground Railroad Records, 1872, recounts the experiences of hundreds of slaves James Lindsay Smith, Autobiography of James L. Smith, 1881, published by the Norwich Bulletin Lucy Delaney, From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom, 1892 — this is unique as the only first-person account of a successful freedom suit Louis Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, Milwaukee, 1897 Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, Garden City, New York, 1901 Sam Aleckson, Before the War, and After the Union: An Autobiography, Boston, 1929 WPA slave narratives During the Great Depression of the