ISBN:
9780199720712
,
0199720711
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxxii, 416 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Slave narratives after slavery
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
Slaves Biography
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Southern States
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Slaves Social conditions
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19th century
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Southern States
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African Americans Biography
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Slaves' writings, American
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African Americans Biography
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Slaves Social conditions 19th century
;
Slaves Biography
;
Social Science Southern States
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African Americans
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Slaves
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Slaves ; Social conditions
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Slaves' writings, American
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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Biographies
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Southern States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Biography
;
Biografie
;
Autobiographie
;
Quelle
Abstract:
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person narratives of slavery and freedom published after 1865. Elizabeth Keckley's controversial Behind the Scenes (1868) introduced white Americ
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record
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