Slave Narratives (LOA #114): Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William & Ellen Craft / Harriet JaWilliam L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Library of America, 2000 M01 15 - 992 pages The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
Contents
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw | 1 |
Olaudah Equiano | 35 |
The authors account of his country their manners | 49 |
CHAP II | 65 |
CHAP III | 80 |
CHAP IV | 94 |
CHAP V | 112 |
CHAP VI | 129 |
Nat Turner | 243 |
Frederick Douglass | 267 |
William Wells Brown | 369 |
Henry Bibb | 425 |
Sojourner Truth | 567 |
William and Ellen Craft | 677 |
Harriet Ann Jacobs | 743 |
Green | 949 |
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