This unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the incredible and epic escape by a couple who, recognising that Ellen was so pale skinned that she could pass for a person of European origin, devised the innovative plan of escaping North while posing as a young male planter master and his enslaved companion. The second story, that of Bermudan-born Mary Prince, is notable because hers was the first personal account written by a female slave ever to be published in Britain. The third and final account, by Solomon Northup, has become famous because his experiences have been turned into a highly regarded motion picture. Northup was born a free man, happily married with children and working and owning property in Saratoga Springs, New York. During a visit to Washington he was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery on a Southern plantation which he endured, despite repeated escape attempts, for twelve years before regaining the liberty that had been taken from him. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.