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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 .
The narrative explores the lives of various characters connected to the Townsend plantation: Caldonia, Henry's widow, who struggles to maintain the plantation after his death [4] Moses, the plantation's overseer, who harbors ambitions of taking Henry's place [2] Fern Elston, a free black woman who taught Henry and becomes a confidante to ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy.
Book cover of Baquaqua's memoirs, published in 1854. Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua [1] was a former slave, native of Zooggoo, West Africa, a tributary kingdom of Bergoo kingdom. He worked in Brazil as a captive; however, he escaped and fled to New York in 1847, assuring his freedom.
Louisa Picquet (c. 1829, Columbia, South Carolina – August 11, 1896, New Richmond, Ohio) was an African American born into slavery. Her slave narrative, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life, was published in 1861.The narrative, written by abolitionist pastor Hiram Mattison, details Picquet's experiences with subjects like sexual violence, Christianity, and ...
Slave narratives — works associated with people after they escaped from slavery to freedom. For works associated with people held captive, see: Category: ...