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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]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th ...
The two most famous anti-Tom books are The Sword and the Distaff by William Gilmore Simms and The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz. [ 2 ] Simms' The Sword and the Distaff came out only a few months after Stowe's novel and contains several sections and discussions that debate Stowe's book and view of slavery.
Link to Internet Archive copy of 1817 edition of the book. Davis, Robert C. "Slavery in North Africa - The Famous Story of Captain James Riley". Article placing Sufferings in Africa in a wider context of other Christian slave narratives, including comprehensive links to public domain online copies of works.
Charles Ball was most well known for his slave narrative, the 1837 book The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball.. The primary source for Ball's life is his autobiography, Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave Under Various Masters, and was One Year in the Navy ...
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 result is “The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots,” a newly published book that contains both Jacobs’ original document and Schroeder’s deeply researched biography ...
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 ...