Bibliograph

The classic slave narratives, edited and with an updated introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr

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The classic slave narratives, edited and with an updated introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The classic slave narratives

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

773931038

Responsibility statement

edited and with an updated introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Summary

Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George Washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves had written what are called slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude

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