Slave Narratives
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Norman R Yetman  Publisher Comments More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Penguin Classics)
by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the...
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Life of Olaudah Equiano (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Olaudah Equaino Publisher Comments Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, 6 months among the Miskito Indians in Central...
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Twelve Years a Slave (Library of Southern Civilization)
by Solomon Northrup Publisher Comments This story of the abduction of a free Negro adult from the North and his enslavement in the South--provides a sensational element which cannot be matched in any of the dozens of narratives written by former slaves. 'Think of it: For thirty years a man...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her...
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The Slave Narratives of Texas
by Ron Tyler Publisher Comments Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave remarked, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is--'tis he who has endured." Here are the tales of...
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Olive Gilbert Publisher Comments This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics)
by Harriet A Jacobs Publisher Comments One of the most memorable slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl illustrates the overarching evil and the pervasive depravity of the institution of slavery. Jacobs describes, in great and painful detail, her life as a...
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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narratthe Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Ive (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Audrey A. Fisch Publisher Comments The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American...
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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies
by John W Blassingame Publisher Comments Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for...
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Women's Slave Narratives (06 Edition)
by Annie L. Burton Publisher Comments Unflinching accounts of slavery in the antebellum American South are presented in moving testimonies of five African-American women. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope -...
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Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery
by Doveanna S Fulton Publisher Comments Analyzes Black women's rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery....
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of...
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The Atlantic Sound
by Caryl Phillips Publisher Comments Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically,...
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Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by Harriet E Wilson Publisher Comments The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England....
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Sold as a Slave
by Olaudah Equiano Publisher Comments In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano crisscrossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the U.S. to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. This account is not only one of the great documents of the...
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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember
by James Mellon Publisher Comments In the mid-thirities, the Federal Writer's Project, an adjunct of the W.P.A., dispatched interviewers to capture the personal memories of the last few thousand survivors of American slavery. In Bullwhip Days, they tell, in their own voices, of the harsh...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Editions)
by Harriet Jacobs Synopsis This biography was the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. Born in 1813, Harriet Jacobs was unaware of her status as a slave until the deaths of her mother and a benevolent mistress. This account, of 1861, includes her...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Linda Brent Publisher Comments An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical...
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