| Description |
xxxiv, 342 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 319-330. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Language of Slavery -- Written by Themselves: Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 -- The Life of Job Ben Solomon -- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; Written by Himself -- The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave -- Narrative of James Williams -- The Narrative of Juan Manzano -- Narratives of Fugitive Slaves / Ephraim Peabody -- Life of Henry Bibb -- The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass -- Kidnapped and Ransomed -- Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- The Slave Narratives as History -- On Dialect Usage / Sterling A. Brown -- The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives / Paul D. Escott -- History from Slave Sources / C. Vann Woodward -- Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature / John Edgar Wideman -- Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems / John W. Blassingame -- Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic / Gerald Jaynes -- The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom--A Case Study / Robin W. Winks -- The Slave Narratives as Literature -- "I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature / James Olney -- Three West African Writers of the 1780s / Paul Edwards -- Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery / Susan Willis -- I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives / Robert Burns Stepto. |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
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| Indexed Term |
Autobiographical prose in English American negro writers: Slaves, 1760-1865 - Critical studies |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Autobiography.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Charles T. (Charles Twitchell), 1918-1981.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Slave's narrative. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985 (OCoLC)559234708 |
| ISBN |
0195032764 |
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9780195032765 |
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0195032772 paperback |
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9780195032772 paperback |
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