Jubilee - A story of endurance and triumph; \Virginia Portrait - In this life, a peaceful winter poem by Sterling Brown; \from Indidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - A survivor tells her own story by Harriet Jacobs; \Raise a Ruckus Tonight, Many thousand Gone - Songs of humor and hope two slave songs; \Come Up from the Fields Father - One fine day, a letter arrives, poem by Walt Whitman; \The Sheriff's Children - A tragic past haunts the present, A short story by Charles Waddell Chesnutt; \Traveling the Long Road to Freedom - An Underground Railroad journey essay by Donovan Webster; To the University of Cambridge, in New-England - Advice from the first important African-American writer poem by Phillis Wheatley; \To Phillis Wheatley - A present-day response essay by Lisa Clayton.