1772-1849 (v. 1): An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, 1770-1849 (I Was Born a Slave) - Hardcover

Taylor, Yuval

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556523343 ISBN 13: 9781556523342

Verlag: Chicago Review Press, 1999

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Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature.I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women. Many of the narrativessuch as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobshave achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of the slaves.

Volume one (17701849) includes the narratives of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), William Grimes, Nat Turner, Charles Ball, Moses Roper, Frederick Douglass, Lewis and Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, and Josiah Henson.

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"I Was Born a Slave" collects the twenty most significant slave narratives and arranges them chronologically in two volumes to form a mini-library of essential black writing. The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, and witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; the kidnapping of a white woman and her rescue by a slave; the nightmarish tortures of the infamous Mr Gooch; the tragicomic experiences of a pair of 'white slaves'; and a story of the 'original Uncle Tom'.

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• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1556523343
• ISBN 13: 9781556523342
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 764