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Title:

The classic slave narratives / edited and with an updated introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publisher:

Signet Classics,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxx, 648 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Slave narratives--United States.
Slaves--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Slaves' writings, American.
Slaves--United States--Social conditions.
African Americans--History--To 1863.
United States--Race relations.
Equiano, Olaudah,--b. 1745.
Prince, Mary.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895.
Jacobs, Harriet A.--(Harriet Ann),--1813-1897.

Other Authors:

Gates, Henry Louis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Incidents in the life of a slave girl / History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / [Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent].

Summary:

Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George Washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves had written what are called slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.

ISBN:

0451532139
9780451532138

OCLC:

(OCoLC)773931038

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

FCPB384 -- Dike Public Library (Dike)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

RKPA371 -- Rippey Public Library (Rippey)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)