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Mattie Jane Jackson (January 1847–February 5, 1910) was an African American author. She is known for her 1866 autobiography and slave narrative The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage, Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery, Incidents During the War, Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, which contributed to the national knowledge of African American family life during slavery and ...
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 narrative. The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist. Over six thousand such narratives are estimated to exist; [1] about 150 narratives were published as separate books or pamphlets.
Joseph and Louisa. Relatives. John S. Jacobs (brother) Harriet Jacobs[ a ] (1813 or 1815 [ b ] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". [ 5 ]
Written by Himself, which became a bestseller and paved the way for subsequent slave narratives. [7] The White abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, artfully combining the genres of slave narratives and sentimental novels. [8] Although a work of fiction, Stowe based her novel on several accounts by eyewitnesses.
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.
Clayton, Alabama, U.S. Died. ? U.S. Notable work. Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909) Annie L. Burton (c. 1858 – ?) was an African American memoirist, whose life story is captured in her 1909 autobiography and slave narrative Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days. [1] Her date of death is uncertain.
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. In 1826, she escaped with her infant daughter to freedom.