cover image Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes

Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes

Mary Garrison. White Mane Publishing Company, $19.95 (150pp) ISBN 978-1-57249-272-1

The narratives of Frederick Douglass, Nat Love, Sojourner Truth and others form the basis of Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes by Mary Garrison, a collection of single-chapter biographies of former captives. Informative photographs and historical illustrations and reproductions round out the volume. (June)