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I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives » Read Now
by Yuval Taylor. 770 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This volume includes astonishing tales of heroic slaves. One, born free, was kidnapped and enslaved for twelve years; one was experimented upon by a doctor to see how deep his black skin went; one disguised herself as a male slave-owner; one hid herself from a lustful master in a crawlspace for...
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This volume includes astonishing tales of heroic slaves. One, born free, was kidnapped and enslaved for twelve years; one was experimented upon by a doctor to see how deep his black skin went; one disguised herself as a male slave-owner; one hid herself from a lustful master in a crawlspace for seven years; one delighted in playing cruel practical jokes; one went whaling to avoid being recaptured; and one led an armed posse to battle would be kidnappers.
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Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives » Read Now
by Paul D. Escott. 221 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives by Paul D. Escott The...the Federal Writers Project Slave Narratives and similar materials gathered...of written records, but...
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African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology, Vol. I » Read Now
by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. 293 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant...
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African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant literary genre. Unlike other anthologies, which often contain excerpts from readily available narratives, this work offers complete versions of largely unavailable texts. To add to the value of this reference for the researcher and general reader alike, each narrative is accompanied by a preface, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading. The work begins with an introductory essay that fully contextualizes the slave narrative genre and concludes with a general bibliography.
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African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology, Vol. II » Read Now
by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. 321 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant...
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African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant literary genre. Unlike other anthologies, which often contain excerpts from readily available narratives, this work offers complete versions of largely unavailable texts. To add to the value of this reference for the researcher and general reader alike, each narrative is accompanied by a preface, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading. The work begins with an introductory essay that fully contextualizes the slave narrative genre and concludes with a general bibliography.
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African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology, Vol. III » Read Now
by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. 389 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant...
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African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 such narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant literary genre. Unlike other anthologies, which often contain excerpts from readily available narratives, this work offers complete versions of largely unavailable texts. To add to the value of this reference for the researcher and general reader alike, each narrative is accompanied by a preface, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading. The work begins with an introductory essay that fully contextualizes the slave narrative genre and concludes with a general bibliography.
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The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives » Read Now
by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr. 644 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVES OTHER BOOKS FROM CIVITAS...ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVES Edited by William L. Andrews...anthology of African...
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From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England » Read Now
by Robert J. Cottrol. 224 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 » Read Now
by Henry Louis Gates Jr., William L. Andrews. 446 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

The complete texts of the most important & absorbing slave narratives in the African-American literary tradition.
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The Slave's Narrative » Read Now
by Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. 339 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...disciplines may interpret these slave narratives through the peculiar concerns...John W. Blassingames use of the slave narratives to reconstruct a history of...too long...
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Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form » Read Now
by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy. 288 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave...
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NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.
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Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered » Read Now
by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. 186 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history...
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The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study--Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler--explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term.
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Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative » Read Now
by Samira Kawash. 266 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In readings of slave narratives, "passing novels", and the writings of...
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This book provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In readings of slave narratives, "passing novels", and the writings of Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston, the author asks: What is the work of division? How does division work? The history of the color line in the United States is coeval with that of the nation. The author suggests that throughout this history, the color line has not functioned simply to name biological or cultural difference, but more important, it has served as a principle of division, classification, and order. This book seeks not only to understand, but also to bring critical pressure on the interpretations, practices, and assumptions that correspond to and buttress representations of racial difference.
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Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation » Read Now
by Sterling Bland Lecater Jr. 184 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and...
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African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and identity formation, the volume demonstrates how identity may be seen as a cultural fabrication. Former slave narrators used a series of masking and doubling techniques to address their experiences as African Americans. This book crosses the boundaries between literary criticism and historical study by examining the tensions between generic conventions and the impulses that created and reinforced them.
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Footprints of the Fugitive: Slave Narrative Discourse and the Trace of Autobiography, in Biography » Read Now
by Lynn A. Casmier-Paz. 11 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...CASMIER-PAZ The fugitive slave narratives that were published between...Historians have found that fugitive slave narratives are essential for understanding...readings of...
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African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Lindon Barrett. 28 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...African-American Slave Narratives: Literacy, the Body, Authority...the analysis of African-American slave narratives, few explore fully the notion...rehearsal of the...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass » Read Now
by Frederick Douglass. 80 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library