I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives: 1849-1866
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African America literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hair-breadth 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 narratives -- such as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs -- have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of th…
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Weitere Autoren: Taylor, Yuval (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-55652-332-8
- EAN: 9781556523328
- Produktnummer: 9253328
- Verlag: Lawerence Hill
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 832 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.4 cm x D4.2 cm 1'098 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Reihenbandnummer: 2
- Gewicht: 1098
Über den Autor
Yuval Taylor is the coauthor of Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music and the editor of Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves.
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