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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.
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 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]
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 ...
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772–1815 (co-editor, 1998) The Civitas Anthology of American Slave Narratives (co-editor, 1999) Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook (co-editor, 1999) Slave Narrative (co-editor, 2000) Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line, by Charles W. Chesnutt (editor, 2000)
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy.
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 .
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 ...