Authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope — from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account of a lone woman's tribulations and courage, to Annie Bu

Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that er

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

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

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and he