Black Men in Chains: Narratives by Escaped Slaves

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Title

Black Men in Chains: Narratives by Escaped Slaves

This edition

"Black Men in Chains: Narratives by Escaped Slaves" . Ed. Charles H. Nichols. New York: L. Hill, 1972. 319 pp.

Table of contents

Gustavus Vassa.--Nat Turner.--Moses Roper.--Frederick Douglass.--Lunsford Lane.--Moses Grandy.--William Wells Brown.--James W.C. Pennington.--Henry "Box" Brown.--Solomon Northup.--John Thompson.--Josiah Henson.--William and Ellen Craft.--Harriet Jacobs.--Israel Campbell.--William Parker.--Bibliography (p. [317]-319).

Reviews and notices of anthology


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Commentary on anthology


• Nichols was "author of a standard study of the slave narrative": "Selections from sixteen of the most important narratives are presented along with a knowledgeable introduction and informative headnotes" (Kinnamon 1997: 479).

Cited in


Kinnamon 1997: 479]

Item Number

A0176

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