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Books on: slave narrative

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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft

Book by Charles J. Heglar; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Craft, Ellen, Marriage In Literature, Slavery In Literature, Slaves' Writings, American--History And Criticism, Slaves--United States--Biography--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...freeman. 7 In analyzing the slave narrative genre for his 1969 essay The Slave Narrative: An American Genre...structure as beginning in the slaves private hell of oppression...her perception of the slave narratives as tales of transformation...
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I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, 1770-1849 - Vol. 1

Book by Yuval Taylor; Lawrence Hill Books, 1999

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African Americans--Biography, Slaves' Writings, American, Slaves--United States--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1972, which defended slave narratives in the following words...past experiences of slaves, then the autobiography...Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave , 3. 14. Bayley, Narrative , 591. 15. Steward...some nonfiction slave narratives, such as those of...Davis and Gates, Slaves Narrative , xvii. 27. "Life...
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Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form

Book by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Literary Form, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Slavery In Literature, Slaves' Writings, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...narratives , the fraudulent slave narratives commissioned by...propaganda, and the authentic slave narratives written by escaped slaves--the narrator acknowledges that the narrative has so far been "worrying...conventions" of the "Negro Slave Narrative" 118 . The narrator...
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The Slave's Narrative

Book by Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Oxford University Press, 1985

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Autobiography, Slavery--United States--History--Sources, Slaves--United States--Biography, Slaves--United States--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Northups Twelve Years a Slave 1854 will suggest, a "second phase" narrative is a more sophisticated...because the former slaves voice is responsible...Himself 1845 , the narrative and moral energies of the former slaves voice and tale so resolutely dominate the narratives authenticating machinery...strategies that the narrative becomes, in thrust...
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African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology - Vol. 1

Book by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.; Greenwood Press, 2001

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African Americans--Biography, Slaves' Writings, American, Slaves--United States--Biography, Slaves--United States--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the practice of importing slaves from Africa. The trading of slaves who were already within the...Proclamation in 1863. If slaves were no longer traded as...the thinking went, the slave system would eventually moderate...their popularity, slave narratives continued to be written and...Negro Servant: An Authentic Narrative of a Young Negro, Showing...

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Journal Articles on: slave narrative

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Footprints of the Fugitive: Slave Narrative Discourse and the Trace of Autobiography

Journal article by Lynn A. Casmier-Paz; Biography, Vol. 24, 2001

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Autobiographies--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fugitive slaves--Personal narratives, Slaves--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...nor in the narratives title. The "Narrative of the Life...length American slave narrative...problem of the slaves multiple names...readers bring to slave narrative discourse their...that fugitive "slaves are notorious...Douglasss and Bibbs narratives respond with...their text, The Slaves Narrative, where they define slave narratives as "the written...
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'To Disembark': The Slave Narrative Tradition

Journal article by Kimberly Rae Connor; African American Review, Vol. 30, 1996

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African American artists--Exhibitions, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Ligon, Glenn--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics in art--Analysis, Slavery--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Slaves--Personal narratives

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...period images - as the slave being advertised...of escaped fugative slaves. Following this is...literary genre of the slave narrative as its primary...introduce the published narrative of an ex-slave...nineteenth-century slave narratives - Ligon demonstrates...and thrilling in narrative. From the soil of...self-emancipated slaves do now exhibit slavery...reception of ex-slave narratives were underscored by...
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Four Slave Narratives from the Old North State

Journal article by George Hovis; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...antebellum and postbellum slave narratives in general. Whereas the 1855 narrative emphasizes the stevedore...account of his life as a famous slave minister emphasizes the shared faith of slaves and their poor white neighbors...and most other postbellum narratives, Joness 1885 remembrance...
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Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative

Journal article by Marc Steinberg; African American Review, Vol. 38, 2004

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African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Butler, Octavia E.--Criticism and interpretation, Kindred (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Slave narratives--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself...to other women and/or slaves in her community. Robert...under which they live, the slaves constitute a rich human society...xviii-xix). The cohesive slave community is represented in many slave narratives. But Butler depicts no sense...community" (32). While the narrative does often concentrate on...
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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft

Journal article by Frances Smith Foster; African American Review, Vol. 36, 2002

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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft (Book)

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...Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry...Douglasss 1845 Narrative and Jacobss...prototypes of slave narratives. Stowe is...Rethinking the Slave Narrative sets out...antebellum slave narratives and to redirect...

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Magazine Articles on: slave narrative

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Book Casts Doubts on Parts of 18th-century Slave Narrative

Magazine article; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 22, October 6, 2005

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Blacks, Books, Carretta, Vincent, College professors, Equiano, Olaudah (1750-97), Literary criticism, Narratives, Slavery

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Doubts on Parts of 18th-century Slave Narrative COLLEGE PARK, MD. Olaudah Equiano...few firstperson accounts by a slave of the brutal cross-Atlantic...one of the most widely taught slave narratives, Carrettas work, titled Equiano...
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Slave Narratives to Be Published on the Internet

Magazine article; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 15, April 30, 1998

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Slave Narratives to Be Published on the Internet...HILL, N.C. -Two hundred slave narratives will be available...the Internet of all known slave narratives in English which...investigator, narratives by fugitive slaves before the Civil War and by...
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A World Enslaved: There Are Now More Slaves on the Planet Than at Any Time in Human History. True Abolition Will Elude Us until We Admit the Massive Scope of the Problem, Attack It in All Its Forms, and Empower Slaves to Help Free Themselves

Magazine article by E. Benjamin Skinner; Foreign Policy, March 2008

Subjects:

Human smuggling, Sex oriented businesses, Slave trade--Personal narratives, Slave trade--Prevention, United Nations--Powers and duties, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act of 2000

Collections: History, Entire Library

...conventions have been signed banning the slave trade. Yet, today there are more slaves than at any time in human history...Some gained fame through dramatic slave rescues. Most learned that freeing slaves is impossible unless the slaves themselves...working without proper papers to be a slave. And, after they have been discovered...enforcement, few rich nations provide slaves with the kind of rehabilitation, retraining...
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British Made: Abolition and the Africa Trade: Kevin Shillington Looks at the Impact on Africa of the Slave Trade, and Its Abolition 200 Years Ago This Month

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, March 2007

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African history--Political aspects, British colonialism--History, Caribbean Islands--Economic aspects, Caribbean Islands--History, Industrial Revolution, ca. 1750-1900--Influence, Industry--History, Industry--Influence, Portuguese colonialism--History, Slave trade--Economic aspects, Slave trade--History, United Kingdom. Slave Trade Act of 1807

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Victoria in 1837, a historical narrative developed that glossed over...for British abolition of the slave trade was economic. Plantation...responding to the demands of the slave traders; but their role in...prisoners of war to become the slave labourers of the victors. In these circumstances, however, slaves were an integral part of the...
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Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

Magazine article by Emma Christopher; History Today, Vol. 60, February 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The Ships That Stopped The Slave Trade Sian Rees Chatto Windus...abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, that the entire travesty...too rich to provide a single narrative, much as Rees tries. She...rescue of European and American slaves from North Africa; the First...horrors of the transatlantic slave trade after abolition: in...

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Newspaper Articles on: slave narrative

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Slave Inspired by Daniel O'Connell; CIVIL RIGHTS HERO'S FAMILY VISIT IRELAND

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 13, 2011

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Civil rights activists, Civil rights workers, Civil rights--Ireland, Douglass, Frederick, Slaves--Civil rights

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in Maryland, he became a slave at the age of six. But in...controversial autobiography Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in 1845, he was advised to...thousand followers. The escaped slave was instantly impressed by...
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THEATRE Slave/ the Unity, Liverpool

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 6, 2011

Subjects:

Nazer, Mende, Slaves

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the height of the Victorian slave trade. Its a statistic with...Fortunately for the audience, Slave: A Question of Freedom has...thanks to the true story of the "slave" at its centre, Sudanese Mende...fight for political asylum and narrative is substituted for action...
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At Last I'm Beginning to Feel Free of the Traffickers; as a 'Sex Slave' Gang Is Jailed, One Young Woman Who First Described Her Own Terrible Ordeal to the Standard Reveals How a New Life in London Is Finally Helping to Heal Her

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 2, 2006

Subjects:

Sex oriented businesses--Personal narratives, Sex oriented businesses--Standards

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Last Im Beginning to Feel Free of the Traffickers; as a Sex Slave Gang Is Jailed, One Young Woman Who First Described Her Own...violent pimp named Niki Dimitrov, she spent a year as a sex slave in Londons suburbs, and was even advertised on the internet...was there for that." AS A result - like many former "sex slaves" - Natasha has barely spoken to anyone about her experience...
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I Made a Meal of It but It's Hard Being a Ryder Cup Slave; Ryder Rebel: Mahan Says U.S. Stars Are Losing Enthusiasm for the Ryder Cup but Rues Describing Them as Slaves

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2008

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Slavery--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

I Made a Meal of It but Its Hard Being a Ryder Cup Slave; Ryder Rebel: Mahan Says U.S. Stars Are Losing Enthusiasm for the Ryder Cup but Rues Describing Them as Slaves. Byline: DEREK LAWRENSON AMERICAN Hunter Mahan yesterday snapped off the chains to explain his extraordinary comment in...
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How City's Women Opposed Slave Trade; the Abolition of the Slave Trade Was One of the Great Social Triumphs of the 19th Century. Birmingham, like All the Great Cities of the British Empire, Benefited from the Trade in Human Beings. as the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain Approaches This Sunday, Tom Scotney Looks at Archives Recording the Anti-Slavery Movement

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 20, 2007

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Cities and towns

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Relief of British Negro Slaves was the biggest abolitionist...awareness of the suffering of slaves. They also carried out charity...raise money to support the slaves, raising hundreds of pounds...works like The Interesting Narrative, a book written by escaped slave Olaudah Equiano, who came...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: slave narrative

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African Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...singer) will accompany a narrative with music. Some of the...the West were the poignant slave narratives, such as The Interesting Narrative of the Life and Adventures...horrors of slavery and the slave trade. As Africans became...
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Twain, Mark

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sense of human values, Twain created one of the most memorable characters in fiction. The narrative device of a raft carrying Huck and a runaway slave down the Mississippi enabled Twain to achieve a realistic portrait of American life in the...
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Douglass, Frederick

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...near Easton, Md. The son of a black slave, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white...mistress in Baltimore, published his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845. Fearing capture as a fugitive slave, he spent several years in England...
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Franklin, Sir John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...crossed the barren grounds from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic coast at the mouth...coast for c.175 mi (280 km). In his Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar...Fort Franklin (now Deline). Franklins Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores...
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Perry, Matthew Calbraith

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the African squadron, which was engaged in suppressing the slave trade. In the Mexican War, as commander of the Gulf Fleet...Congress, which also paid for publication of the official Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas...

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