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She is the author of Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge University Press, 2000) [1] and other critical works including Caryl Phillips (2004), Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary Culture (2016) [2] and a free, 500-page book to support Black Lives Matter entitled Black Agents ...
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
The book was published in 1817 and was originally titled Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce by the "Late Master and Supercargo" James Riley, modernly republished as Sufferings in Africa, and comes down to us today as a startling gap of the usual master-slave narrative.
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]
After having returned to France, he wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave, which is a rare description of slavery in Libya, most barbary slave narratives depicting slavery in Alger and Morocco. [1] Joined the Paris Congregation of the Order of Mercy in 1671. He was ordained priest after September 1676.
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy.
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 ...
Slave narratives — works mostly associated with Africans or African Americans who escaped from slavery to freedom. For their works, see: Category: Slave narratives , and for works associated with Europeans held captive, see: Category: Captivity narratives .