Six women's slave narratives / with an introduction by William L. Andrews.

Six Women's Slave Narratives contains stories that embody most of the themes and narratives found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West India...

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Uniform Title:Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
Other Authors: Prince, Mary
Jackson, Mattie Jane, approximately 1845-
Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann), 1828?-
Drumgoold, Kate
Burton, Annie L.
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Series:Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
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Physical Description:1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, portraits ; 17 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The history of Mary Prince, West Indian slave / originally edited by Thomas Pringle
  • Memoir of old Elizabeth, a coloured woman
  • The story of Mattie J. Jackson / written and arranged by L.S. Thompson
  • From the darkness cometh the light or struggles for freedom / by Lucy A. Delaney
  • A slave girl's story / Kate Drumgoold
  • Memories of childhood's slavery days / Annie L. Burton.