The classic slave narratives
By: edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Contributors: Gates, Henry Louis.
Publisher: Signet classic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
Subjects: Equiano, Olaudah, -- b. 1745; Prince, Mary; Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895; Jacobs, Harriet A. -- 1813-1897; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Biography.
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: Includes bibliographical references (p. [669]-672).
Table of contents: title: The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African; title: The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave; title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an African slave; title: Incidents in the life of a slave girl / [Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent].