I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, 1849-1866 (2) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1556523351 ISBN 13: 9781556523359

Casa editrice: Chicago Review Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature.I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women. Many of the narrativessuch as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobshave achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of the slaves.

Volume two (18491866) includes the narratives of Henry Bibb, James W. C. Pennington, Solomon Northup, John Brown, John Thompson, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Jacob D. Green, James Mars, and William Parker.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Chicago Review Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1556523351
• ISBN 13: 9781556523359
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 796
• Redattore: Taylor Yuval