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Unspoken: a story from the Underground Railroad
Hardback. English.
Published
New York: Scholastic Press, 2012
Equiano's travels: his autobiography 'The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African'
Book. English.
Published
London: Heinemann, 1967
This narrative tells of the 18th-century author's early life in Ibo country, his days as a slave in Southern America and of his later travels
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Book. English.
Published
Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth...
Incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, c2000
Enlarged ed / now with "A true tale of slavery" by John S. Jacobs, edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin
This enlarged edition now completes the Jacobs family saga, one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, "...
Harriet Jacobs: a life
Hardback. English.
Published
New York: Basic Civitas Books, c2004
In this remarkable biography, Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery. Jacobs'sIncidents in the Life...
Enslaved: true stories of modern day slavery
Hardback. English.
Published
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, domestic servants and chattel...
"Those who labor for my happiness": slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Paperback. English.
Published
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, c2012
Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas...
American slavery as it is; testimony of a thousand witnesses
Book. English.
Published
New York, Arno Press, 1968
Ghosts of slavery: a literary archaeology of black women's lives
Paperback. English.
Published
Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Through their open defiance, women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth had a significant impact on the institution of slavery. But what of the millions...
The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
This companion examines the slave narrative in relation to its historical context as well as the larger African American literary tradition. With its...
