Six Women's Slave Narratives Hardback
Part of the The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers series
Hardback
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas.
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War.
The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a ninety-seven-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher.
Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave's achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War.
Kate Drumgoold and Annie L. Burton also describe their successes in the postwar North while eulogizing black motherhood in the antebellum South.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, 1 black and white plate
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/07/1988
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- ISBN:9780195052626
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, 1 black and white plate
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/07/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195052626
