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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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    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: 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: 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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    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.

    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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