Six women's slave narratives
By: with an introduction by William L. Andrews.
Series: Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Slaves -- United States -- Biography.; Women slaves -- United States -- Biography.; Slaves' writings, American.
Description: Six Women's Slave Narratives contains stories that embody most of the themes and narratives found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the collection includes writings by "Old Elizabeth", Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton.
Table of contents: title: The history of Mary Prince, West Indian slave / originally edited by Thomas Pringle; title: Memoir of old Elizabeth, a coloured woman; title: The story of Mattie J. Jackson / written and arranged by L.S. Thompson; title: From the darkness cometh the light or struggles for freedom / by Lucy A. Delaney; title: A slave girl's story / Kate Drumgoold; title: Memories of childhood's slavery days / Annie L. Burton.