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...
Uniform Title: | Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988.
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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.