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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
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.
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 ...
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]
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]
James Lindsay Smith (ca. 1816 – ca. 1883) was an American slave narrative author, minister, and shoemaker. [1] [2] His memoir Autobiography of James L. Smith (1881) was one of only six slave narratives published in Connecticut. [3]
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy.
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.