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Six Women's Slave Narratives

Name: Six Women's Slave Narratives
Author: William L. Andrews
ISBN: 9780195052626

by William L. Andrews, Mattie Jackson, Mary Prince

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Overview

Six Women's Slave narratives contains stories that embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the collection includes writings by 'Old Elizabeth, ' Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton.

These stories embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Synopsis

Six Women's Slave Narratives contains stories that embody most of the themes and narratives found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the collection includes writings by "Old Elizabeth", Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton.