Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives

Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781440844645
ISBN-13 : 144084464X
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Download or read book Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives written by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Naturally, it is not possible to really know what being a slave during the antebellum period in America was like without living the experience. But students CAN get eye-opening insight into what it was like through the gripping stories of bravery, courage, persistence, and resiliency in this collection of annotated slave narratives from the period. Each of the collected narratives includes an introduction that provides readers with key historical context on the particular life examined. Moreover, each narrative is accompanied by annotations that broaden the reader's comprehension of that primary document. The primary source documents in this volume tell enthralling stories, such as how slave woman Ellen Craft utilized her particularly pale complexion to pose as a free white man overseeing his slaves to free herself and her husband, and how Henry Brown successfully shipped himself to freedom in a box measuring scarcely 3 feet by two feet by six inches deep—despite being more than six feet tall.


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