Slave Narratives After Slavery

Herausgeber: Andrews, William L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Slave Narratives After Slavery provides the complete original text of five overlooked slave narratives that appeared between Reconstruction and the turn of the twentieth century, offering historical introductions and suggested further readings for each.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780195179439
• ISBN-10: 0195179439
• Artikelnr.: 35938550

Autorenporträt

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina. He is the author of and editor of numerous books, including The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, and The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction (with bibliography) * Note on the text * Introduction to Keckley and Behind the Scenes * Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes
or
Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton
1868). * Introduction to Adams and Narrative of the Life * John Quincy Adams
Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams
When in Slavery
and Now as a Freeman (Harrisburg
Pa.: Sieg
1872). * Introduction to Brown and My Southern Home * William Wells Brown
My Southern Home
or
The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown and Co.
Publishers
1880). * Introduction to Delaney and From the Darkness Cometh the Light * Lucy Ann Berry Delaney
From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or
Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith
1891). * Introduction to Hughes and Thirty Years a Slave * 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).