Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book depicts in greater detail his transition from ...
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 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 ...
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.
“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 : the journey to freedom. New York : Franklin Watts. ISBN 978-0-531-11743-9. Veney, Bethany (1889). The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman. Worcester, Massachusetts. Williams, Heather Andrea (2012). Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery. Chapel Hill : University of North ...