Harriet Jacobs' narrative provides some useful perspective, especially if you're still thinking about the Russians and the role of oppression in revolution. Emancipation in the US didn't come about until 1863, but stories like Jacobs', even Equiano's, were relatively common - slavery has always been an issue that got people's attention. In terms of revolution, the US didn't experience a political revolution like Russia's, but emancipation, suffrage, the civil rights movement, and related law and policy changes all provided profound changes to the ways that this country operated socially, economically, and politically. The turmoil of revolution was there, but it was spread over a longer time period. This text gives us some insight into some of those struggles.
Jacobs, like Equiano, clearly shows the irony of the philosophy driving slavery: to claim that others are barbaric and inferior reveals something nasty about the claimant, not the defendant. Jacobs is particularly critical of the treatment of women, oppressed socially, economically, and politically at this time and after, and some of the examples she provides, e.g., the woman drowning herself, support a feminist reading of this text.
There's a very nice timeline that shows events in the US during Jacobs' life at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/JACOBS/hj-timeline.htm, and Yale has a nice collection of Jacobs' letters at http://www.yale.edu/glc/harriet/docs.htm. For additional context for the abolition movement, including maps and plates from this period, see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html.