I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives, Volume one, 1770-1849

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Label

I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives, Volume one, 1770-1849

Title remainder

an anthology of classic slave narratives

Title number

Volume one

Title part

1770-1849

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• African Americans -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Electronic books
• Slaves -- United States -- Biography
• Slaves' writings, American

Genre

• Biography
• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

Summary

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives. They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women. Many of the narratives such as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of the slaves. Volume Two (18491866) includes the narratives of Henry Bibb, James W. C. Pennington, Solomon Northup, John Brown, John Thompson, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Jacob D. Green, James Mars, and William Parker

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

306.362092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Library of Black America

Target audience

adult