Black Slave Narratives

Item

Title

Black Slave Narratives

This edition

"Black Slave Narratives" . Ed. John Bayliss. New York: Macmillan, 1970. 221 pp.; repr. New York: Collier, 1973.

Table of contents

The Africans: Gustavas Vassa -- Venture Smith -- Charles Ball -- Master and slave: Charles Ball -- William Grimes -- Frederick Douglass -- William Wells Brown -- Josiah Henson -- Aunt Clara Davis -- Slaveholder brutality: John Brown -- Moses Roper -- Solomon Northup -- Family: Henry Bibb -- Josiah Henson -- Women: Harriet Jacobs -- Harriet Tubman -- Elizabeth Keckly -- Superstition: Henry Bibb -- William Grimes -- Adventure: James Thompson -- "Uncle Tom's bearfight" -- Revolt: Nat Turner -- Harriet Jacobs -- Escape: Henry "Box" Brown -- James W.C. Pennington.

Reviews and notices of anthology


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Commentary on anthology


• Collects "brief excerpts—snippets, really—from twenty narratives" (Kinnamon 1997: 479).

Cited in


Kinnamon 1997: 479]

Item Number

A0120

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