Classic Slave Narratives
Item
Title
Classic Slave Narratives
This edition
"The Classic Slave Narratives" . Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Penguin / New York: New American Library, 1987. xviii+518 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. New York: Signet Classics, 2002. 672 pp.
• Repr. with new introduction. New York: Signet Classics, 2012. xxx+648 pp.
Table of contents
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African -- The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an African slave -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / [Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent].
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Commentary on anthology
• This is "the best, least expensive, and most easily available work of its kind. One would be hard pressed to find a more thoughtful introduction or a better selection, evenly divided between women and men" (Kinnamon 1997: 480).
Cited in
original ed.: Kinnamon 1997: 480]
Item Number
A0233