Slave Narratives After Slavery

by William L. Andrews

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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 upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195179439

ISBN13:9780195179439

Release Date:April 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:456 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Abolition Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Discrimination & Racism History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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