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Slave narratives after slavery /
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868)
- John Quincy Adams, Narrative of the life of John Quincy Adams, when in slavery, and now as a freeman (Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872)
- William Wells Brown, My southern home, or, The South and its people (Boston: A.G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880)
- Lucy Ann Berry Delaney, From the darkness cometh the light, or, Struggles for freedom (St. Louis: J.T. Smith, 1891)
- Hughes, Louis, Thirty years a slave, from bondage to freedom, the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897).