Authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope — from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account of a lone woman's tribulations and courage, to Annie Burton's eulogy of black motherhood.
Includes the personal narratives of Mary Prince, "Old Elizabeth," Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton
Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
Based on the true story of Harriet Jacobs’s escape from the South, this is one of American literature’s most powerful indictments of the evils of slavery.
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.
In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one ...
Includes the personal narratives of Mary Prince, "Old Elizabeth," Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: African American Literature, language: English, abstract: The content of this paper ...
Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.
Four Classic Slave Narratives Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth. frequent occasion to visit that place during the session of the courts, and the fear entertained by Mr. Northup's adviser was, ...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for...