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After the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. [3] The main objectives were to inform the public and describe the history and life of the former slaves. [citation needed] More than 2,000 slave narratives along with 500 photos are available online at the Library of Congress as part of the "Born in Slavery ...
The publication was advertised in the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator as "a series of very handsomely executed and profusely illustrated Story Books". [20] While many slave narratives in abolitionist children’s literature ended unhappily, a common narrative is that of the escaped slave who has found their freedom.
James Lindsay Smith (ca. 1816 – ca. 1883) was an American slave narrative author, minister, and shoemaker. [1] [2] His memoir Autobiography of James L. Smith (1881) was one of only six slave narratives published in Connecticut. [3]
To Be A Slave is a 1968 nonfiction children's book by Julius Lester, illustrated by Tom Feelings. It explores what it was like to be a slave. It explores what it was like to be a slave. The book includes many personal accounts of former slaves, accompanied by Lester's historical commentary and Feelings' powerful and muted paintings.
Moses Roper (c. 1815 – April 15, 1891) was an African American abolitionist, author and orator.He wrote an influential narrative of his enslavement in the United States in his Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery and gave thousands of lectures in Great Britain and Ireland to inform the European public about the brutality of American slavery.
Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America broadly [3] documents nineteenth century slave children and their lives. [4] It was the first full-length book on the subject, [5] [6] and at the time of its publishing, the topic of enslaved children was underrepresented in American slavery scholarship.
This slave narrative begins with an 'Advertisement.' In the case of this book, the use of the word Advertisement is not to introduce a paid announcement to publicize a type of good or enterprise. Instead, its function is that of a notice to the readers to the fact that the work is the authentic work of Josiah Henson.
Bond wrote a novel, The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, Fugitive Slave from North Carolina. It is a fictional slave narrative, recounting the experiences of a young mixed-race woman slave who escapes to the North and gains freedom. Her manuscript was found years later in a New Jersey attic and held privately for some time.