The classic slave narratives
By: edited and with an updated introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780451532138
Subjects: Slave narratives; Race relations; Slaves; Social conditions; Slaves' writings, American; African Americans; Biography; History
Description: Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George Washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves had written what are called slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African --; title: History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave --; title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave --; title: Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- [Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent].