Autobiography of a Female Slave - Brossura

Griffith, Mattie; Browne, Martha Griffith

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ISBN 10: 1578060478 ISBN 13: 9781578060474

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1998

Riassunto

Mattie Griffith, passing as a black, wanted her book to horrify and shame the nation. She posed as a slave to bring attention to the injustice of slavery.
Identifying herself as Ann, a former servant woman, she recalls her protected youth and good education as a nearly white child. She tells that at twelve she was sold to a brutal master. On his Kentucky plantation she witnessed and experienced the cruelty of slave life. Following his death one of his daughters takes Ann to the city as her servant. Ann finds new friendships there and falls in love with Henry, a slave who kills himself after being cheated out of his self-purchase. After being sold to an elderly Bostonian who emancipates her, Ann finishes her story as a schoolteacher for black children.
Pseudo-slave narratives like Griffith's, first published in 1856, appeared over the course of the abolitionist movement. This is the only one now in print.

Su questo libro

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

In a new printing, a pseudo-slave narrative published in 1856 to impel the cause of abolition

Product Description:

Book by Griffith Mattie

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1578060478
• ISBN 13: 9781578060474
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 418