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William L. (Hrsg.) Andrews

North Carolina Slave Narratives

The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones

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The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty.Introductions to each narrative provide biogr… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8078-5658-1
  • EAN: 9780807856581
  • Produktnummer: 1561381
  • Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 294 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 455 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 455

Über den Autor


General editor WILLIAM L. ANDREWS is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt and To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Coeditors David A. Davis, Tampathia Evans, Ian Frederick Finseth, and Andrea N. Williams have earned graduate degrees in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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