Six Women's Slave Narratives (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Type

Book

Authors

Pringle ( Thomas Pringle )

Thompson ( Dr. L. S. Thompson )

Old Elizabeth

Delaney ( Lucy A. Delaney )

Drumgoold ( Kate Drumgoold )

Burton ( Annie L. Burton )

ISBN 10

0195060830

ISBN 13

9780195060836

Tags

African-American & Black, United States, Women in History, Genetics, African-American Studies, Women's Studies

Description

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J.Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a 97-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A.Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave's achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L.Burton also describe their successes in the postwar North while eulogizing black motherhood in the antebellum South. - from Amzon

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