Slave Narratives: James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Henry Bibb, Sojourner Truth, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet A. Jacobs, Jacob D. Green (Library of America)

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William L. Andrews

Genre Fiction Books & Literature

Format Hardcover

Dimensions 5.28 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 1.28 (d)

Pages 992

Publisher Library of America

Publication Date January 2000

ISBN 9781883011765

Book ISBN 10 1883011760

About Book

The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.

Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green.

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Library Journal

This volume contains ten full slave narratives, including "Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," "The Confessions of Nat Turner," "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," "Narrative of Sojourner Truth," "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom," and "Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green," along with a chronology and scholarly and biographical notes by the editors. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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