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SIX WOMEN'S SLAVE NARRATIVES
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| By: |
William L. Andrews, Alan Boustead |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195052625 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195052626 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
14 April, 1988 |
| Series: |
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
What shines through each of these stories is the black woman's ability to recover in past oppression the hope for a better day. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
1 black and white plate |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |