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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Comprising: Slave Narratives: James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; the Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W.Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojourner Truth; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl; Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green. First edition, first printing, hardbound, solid tight binding, a few pages with pen marks, jacket a bit used, a nice reading copy.

red full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with red satin marker ribbon. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. library discard copy in vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. top edge ink stamped. other edges clean. inkstamped on front flyleaf, title pg. and copyright pg., otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice copy for a library discard. no names, no inking, or underlining, no remainder markings. no pocket at rear, no rfid tags. good binding, clean text. first edition. first printing so stated. 1035p.+ colophon. chronology. biographical notes. note on the texts. notes. american history. african american history. slavery. american civil war. abolitionism. african history. ~ No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The ten works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African American struggle for freedom and dignity. Together, they demonstrate the power of the written word to affirm a person's~and a people's~humanity in a society poisoned by racism. Slave Narratives shows how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and, through the expression of their anger, pain, sorrow, and courage, laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition. Included are narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789), who were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass (1845), William Wells Brown (r847), and Henry Bibb ( 1849) strengthened the abolitionist cause by exposing the hypocrisies inherent in a slaveholding society ostensibly dedicated to liberty and Christian morality. Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) describes slavery in the North while expressing the eloquent fervor of a legendary woman. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) tells the story of William and Ellen Craft's subversive and ingenious escape from Georgia to Philadelphia. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is Harriet Jacobs' complex and moving story of her prolonged resistance to sexual and racial oppression, while the narrative of the "trickster" Jacob Green ( 1864) presents a disturbing story full of wild humor and intense cruelty. Together, these works fuse memory, advocacy, and defiance into a searing collective portrait of American life before emancipation. Slave Narratives contains a chronology of events in the history of slavery, as well as biographical and explanatory notes and an essay on the texts.