num_pages: 384
description: 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.Contents:-Introduction by William L. Andrews-The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) (includes The Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African). Originally edited by Thomas Pringle.-Memoirs of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863)-The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866). Written and arranged by Dr. L. S. Thompson-From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) by Lucy. A. Delaney-A Slave Girl's Story (1898) by Kate Drumgoold-Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909) by Annie. L. Burton
language: English
title: Six Women's Slave Narratives
titlecomplete: Six Women's Slave Narratives (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
genres: History, Nonfiction, Race
ratings_count: 60
publisher: Oxford University Press