Product Description: African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the grim realities of the antebellum South; they also provide the foundation for this compelling and revealing work on African American history and experiences.• Presents information and primary source documents that support such key subject areas as American history, ethnic studies, and African American history, among other areas• Introduces readers to unique slave narratives that often center on such topics as entrepreneurship, racial violence and resistance, gender, and subjects regarding the color line like pigmentation and passing• Situates each slave narrative in historical context through the use of a document introduction and annotations• Supplies slave narratives that are important primary sources and will help students with building interpretive, critical-thinking skills needed to be successful 21st-century learner...read more

Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.

Product Description: In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print...read more

Product Description: Ten slaves-all under the age of 19-tell stories of enslavement, brutality, and dreams of freedom in this collection culled from full-length autobiographies. These accounts, selected to help teenagers relate to the horrific experiences of slaves their own age living in the not-so-distant past, include stories of young slaves torn from their mothers and families, suffering from starvation, and being whipped and tortured...read more

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

Presents a collection of detailed narratives by African American writers who experienced slavery, and shows how their stories had an impact on the social history of America before emancipation.

Includes the personal narratives of Mary Prince, 'Old Elizabeth,' Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton

Product Description: In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship―in plain sight and relative luxury―from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England...read more

Gathers twenty of the most significant slave narratives published since the Civil War

Gathers twenty of the most significant slave narratives published since the Civil War

Gathers twenty of the most significant slave narratives published since the Civil War (view table of contents)

Gathers writings by Mary Prince, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Henry Bibb, William and Ellen Craft, and Harriet A. Jacobs (view table of contents)

Includes the personal narratives of Mary Prince, 'Old Elizabeth,' Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton

Includes the personal narratives of Mary Prince, 'Old Elizabeth,' Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton