A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a po

Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three section

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