Anthologies of African American Writing

Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives

"The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives" . Ed. William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Washington, DC: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1999. xi+642 pp.

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself, to which is added, the narrative of Asa-Asa, a captured African (1831) -- The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray (1831) -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself (1845) -- Narrative of William W. Brown, an American slave, written by himself (1849) -- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself (1849) -- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery (1860) -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself, Harriet A. Jacobs (1861).

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