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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.
In 2019, he published a monograph, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 with Oxford University Press. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , described Slavery and Class as a "seminal work of scholarship, one destined to generate a new branch of literary studies, dedicated to studying how class mattered ...
In this autobiography, he recounted his youth as a slave, his escape to freedom, and his later life in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In addition, he incorporated historical accounts of the American Civil War , the destruction the war inflicted on the South, the heroism of Black Union soldiers, and postwar Black emigration to the North.
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy. An NC slave’s forgotten story reappears after a century, speaking ...
The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and his Experience of Slavery in South Carolina Life and Times of Frederick Douglass The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
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 .
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]