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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.
Loosely based on the book Ducks, Dogs and Friends, the film is about a white hunter who befriends a freed slave. [9] Seven Angry Men: 1955: Follows John Brown's campaign to end slavery and his raid on Harper's Ferry. The Slave Hunters: 2010: Slave hunter goes after an escaped General-turned-slave in this South Korean 24-episode television ...
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]
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.
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)
Her book differs from other slave narratives of the time because she wrote it herself instead of allowing another author to write it for her. [5] This narrative is the autobiographical account of Annie Burton as she grows up enslaved in the United States. Burton recounts her life as a child on the plantation she was born on in Alabama.
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 .