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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Link to Internet Archive copy of 1817 edition of the book. Davis, Robert C. "Slavery in North Africa - The Famous Story of Captain James Riley". Article placing Sufferings in Africa in a wider context of other Christian slave narratives, including comprehensive links to public domain online copies of works.
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy.
The development of slave narratives from autobiographical accounts to modern fictional works led to the establishment of slave narratives as a literary genre.This large rubric of this so-called "captivity literature" includes more generally "any account of the life, or a major portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave, either written or orally related by the slave himself or herself". [4]
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 .