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1 online resource (xxxii, 416 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868) -- John Quincy Adams, Narrative of the life of John Quincy Adams, when in slavery, and now as a freeman (Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872) -- William Wells Brown, My southern home, or, The South and its people (Boston: A.G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880) -- Lucy Ann Berry Delaney, From the darkness cometh the light, or, Struggles for freedom (St. Louis: J.T. Smith, 1891) -- Hughes, Louis, Thirty years a slave, from bondage to freedom, the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897). |
| Summary |
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person narratives of slavery and freedom published after 1865. Elizabeth Keckley's controversial Behind the Scenes (1868) introduced white Americ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Southern States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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African Americans -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Biography. |
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Enslaved persons' writings, American.
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Enslaved persons' writings, American. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Andrews, William L., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slave narratives after slavery. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780195179422 (DLC) 2010019589 (OCoLC)633138505 |
| ISBN |
9780199720712 (electronic book) |
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0199720711 (electronic book) |
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9780195179422 |
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0195179420 |
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9780195179439 |
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0195179439 |
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