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Library of America
Slave Narratives

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Slave Narratives
Slave Narratives book jacket Edited by:  William L. Andrews & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Library of America
ISBN: 1-883011-76-0
Series Number: 114
Product Code: 201188
Price: $40.00
No literary genre speaks so directly and so eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The ten works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom and dignity. They demonstrate the power of the written word to affirm a person's—and a people's—humanity in a society poisoned by racism. Slave Narratives shows how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.

Included in the volume are: the late 18th-century narratives of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), who were abducted in Africa and brought across the Atlantic; the Confessions of Nat Turner, who led the deadliest slave revolt in American history; widely read narratives from the 1840s by antislavery activists Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Henry Bibb; the memoir of the legendary Sojourner Truth, depicting slavery in the north; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the story of William and Ellen Craft's ingenious escape from Georgia; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs' complex and moving story of her resistance to sexual and racial oppression; and the narrative of the subversive "trickster" Jacob Green. Together, they fuse memory, advocacy, and defiance into a serving collective portrait of American life before emancipation.

Slave narratives contains a chronology of events in the history of slavery as well as biographical and explanatory notes.


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