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The book was published by Bela Marsh, a for-profit anti-slavery press, first in 1848, [14] with a second edition in 1849 [15] and a third in 1850. [16]Describing five slave narratives including that of Henry Watson, The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany wrote, "We place these volumes without hesitation among the most remarkable productions of the age,—remarkable as being pictures ...
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.
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]
As a slave in Edenton, John Swanson Jacobs had five owners in 18 years. The last one, whom he described as kindly by comparison, took him on a trip through New York and left him unguarded to run ...
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 .
Freedom: The Underground Railroad components consists of a game board representing connections between cities and spaces on the map of the United States, three decks of cards (Role cards, Abolitionist cards, and Slave Market cards), five slave catcher tokens, 110 wooden cubes representing the men, women and children trapped in slavery, slave ...
Helen Thomas, 'The Slave Narrative' in The Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies, ed. Julia Straub (De Gruyter, 2016) p. 373-390. Helen Thomas, 'Slave Narratives and Transatlantic Literature', in The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative , ed. John Ernest (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) p. 371-390.