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The development of slave narratives from autobiographical accounts to modern fictional works led to the establishment of slave narratives as a literary genre.This large rubric of this so-called "captivity literature" includes more generally "any account of the life, or a major portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave, either written or orally related by the slave himself or herself". [4]
Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772–1815 (co-editor, 1998) The Civitas Anthology of American Slave Narratives (co-editor, 1999) Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook (co-editor, 1999) Slave Narrative (co-editor, 2000) Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line, by Charles W. Chesnutt (editor, 2000)
This HBO film interpretation directed by Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon [2] is a compilation of slave narratives, narrated by actors, emulating the original conversation with the interviewer. The slave narratives may be the most accurate in terms of the everyday activities of the enslaved, serving as personal memoirs of more than two thousand former ...
The Underground Railroad Records is an 1872 book by William Still, who is known as the Father of the Underground Railroad.It is subtitled A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of ...
As a slave in Edenton, John Swanson Jacobs had five owners in 18 years. The last one, whom he described as kindly by comparison, took him on a trip through New York and left him unguarded to run ...
Lewis Clarke was born in Madison County, Kentucky, seven miles from Richmond, in 1812.Depending on the source, Clarke's birth year is listed as 1812 or 1815. He is best known for his slave narrative, Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America, dictated by ...
Elizabeth (c. 1766 – June 11, 1866) was an African-American Methodist preacher and former slave. She orated a popular slave narrative about her life, titled Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Colored Woman, which primarily discussed her faith. [1] It has been referred to as "one of the most remarkable full-length antebellum slavewomen's narratives". [2]