Six Women's Slave Narratives (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Six Women's Slave Narratives (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

by Oxford University Press (Author), Henry Louis Jr. Gates (Editor)

Synopsis

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 97-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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 380
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Dec 1989

ISBN 10: 0195060830
ISBN 13: 9780195060836

Media Reviews
Great collection to augment male narratives and Jacobs. --Roma Johnson, Tufts University
Excellent. --Dr. Jane Buchanan, Bentley College (check name)


Great collection to augment male narratives and Jacobs. --Roma Johnson, Tufts University
Excellent. --Dr. Jane Buchanan, Bentley College (check name)

Great collection to augment male narratives and Jacobs. --Roma Johnson, Tufts University
Excellent. --Dr. Jane Buchanan, Bentley College (check name)


Great collection to augment male narratives and Jacobs. --Roma Johnson, Tufts University


Excellent. --Dr. Jane Buchanan, Bentley College (check name)