Robert J. Moore
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Andrews, William L. (intro.)
Six Women’s Slave
Narratives
. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Presents models of nineteenth and early twentieth century works. The narratives of Mary Prince, Mattie J. Jackson, Elizabeth, and others will be interpreted and evaluated for their authentic portrayal of black womanhood. (T)
Andrews, William L. (ed.)
Three Classic African American
Novels
. New York: Penguin Books, Inc. 1990. Contains The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass, Clotel by William Wells Brown and Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson. (S)
Angelou, Maya.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
. New York: Random House, 1969. Beautiful autobiography of a young black girl growing up in Stamps, Arkansas. (T)
Blassingame, John W. (ed.)
Slave Testimony: Two
Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and
Autobiographies
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. (T)
Botkin, B. A. (ed.)
Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History
of Slavery
. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1945. (T)
Brawley, Benjamin. (ed.)
Early Negro-American Writers
. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1970. (T)
Chesnutt, Charles.
The Conjure Woman
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969 (intro. Robert M. Farnsworth.) Fictionalized narratives written in humor and satire. (TS)
Davis, Charles T. and Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (eds.)
The
Slave’s Narrative
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Provides a wealth of material from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The first section features commentaries, mostly anonymous, on the stories told by identified slaves. These include the lives of: Job Ben Solomon, Gustavus Vassa, James Williams, Juan Manzano, Henry Bibb, Frederick Douglass and Linda. (T)
Duberman, Martin B. “In White America.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. Historical play based on recorded testimony on the civil rights struggle. (T)
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (ed.)
The Classic Slave
Narratives
. New York: Mentor Book, 1987. Contains The Life of Olaudah Equiano, The History of Mary Prince, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. (TS)
Lester, Julius.
To Be A Slave
. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1968. Collection of narratives from a variety of sources organized thematically. (TS)
McPherson, James M.
The Negro’s Civil War
. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965. Historical account of the role of Negro soldiers in the Civil War told from the point of view of whites as well as blacks. (TS)
Miller, Randall M. (ed.)
Dear Master: Letters of a
Slave Family
. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. Allows us to gain intimate insight into the lives of former slaves as they write to their former masters. Focus is on the slaves once owned by Peyton Skipwith. (T)
Mossell, N. F.
The Work of the Afro American Woman
. Joanne Braxton (introduction). New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (TS)
Washington, Mary Helen.
Invented Lives:. Narratives of
Black Women 1860-1960
. New York: Anchor Press Book, 1987. (TS)
