Six Women’s Slave Narratives

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Six Women’s Slave narratives contains stories that embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women’s autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the collection includes writings by ‘Old Elizabeth, ‘ Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton.

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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J.Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a 97-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A.Delaney’s From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave’s achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L.Burton also describe their successes in the postwar North while eulogizing black motherhood in the antebellum South.

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Weight 1.07 lbs
Dimensions 8.54 × 5.51 × 0.95 in
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