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Six Women's Slave Narratives

William Andrews editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:28th Jul '88

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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a ninety-seven-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave's achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L. Burton also describe their successes in the postwar North while eulogizing black motherhood in the antebellum South.

"An excellent selection of women's slave narratives from the Schonberg collection. William Andrew's introduction prepares the reader for the appointed narratives that follow, and the texts are invaluable in teaching the experience of black women in America."-- Mason Lowance, University of Massachusetts "Invaluable."--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review

ISBN: 9780195052626

Dimensions: 222mm x 151mm x 31mm

Weight: 612g

384 pages