North American Slave Narratives (original) (raw)
"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of Black people struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people and some significant fictionalized first-person accounts of enslavement published in English before 1920.
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- Scholarly Bibliography of Slave and Ex-Slave Narratives compiled by William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English
- Guide to Religious Content in Slave Narratives
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