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Summary:

Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George Washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves had written what are called slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.

Table of Contents:

• Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
• History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave
• Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
• Incidents in the life of a slave girl / [Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent].

Contributors:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Slave narratives — United States

Enslaved persons — United States — Biography

African Americans — Biography

Enslaved persons' writings, American

Enslaved persons — United States — Social conditions

African Americans — History — To 1863

United States — Race relations

Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797

Prince, Mary

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897

To 1863

Race relations

Slave narratives

Slaves

African Americans

Slaves' writings, American

Slaves — Social conditions

United States

Genres:

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xxx, 648 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Call Numbers:

E444 .C63 2012

ISBNs:

9780451532138
0451532139

OCLC Numbers:

773931038