The Slave's NarrativeCharles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Oxford University Press, 21/02/1991 - 385 من الصفحات These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts. |
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Views and Reviews 17501861 | 3 |
2 The Slave Narratives as History | 35 |
Illustrations | 146 |
3 The Slave Narratives as Literature | 147 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
abolitionist African Afro-American American Slave antebellum Anti-Slavery audience authenticating autobiography Bibb's Blassingame bondage Boston Canada Carolina character Charles Chesnutt Christian collection conventional Cugoano culture edition editor enslaved Equiano escape essay ex-slaves experience fact fiction former slaves Frederick Douglass freedom fugitive slave genre Harriet Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Jacobs Henry Bibb Henry Box Henry Box Brown historians human Ibid Incidents Jacobs James James W.C. Pennington John Josiah Henson Julius labor language letters literary literature lived Lobb London Manzano master ment mode narrator nature Negro novel oral plantation preface present published question race Rawick reader relations reveal scholars sense sentence Skundus slave community slave narratives slavery Solomon Northup South speech story Stowe's strategy style tale tell testimony tion tive tradition truth Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin voice William Wells Brown words writing written wrote York
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الصفحة xiii - I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.