slaves' writings

A collection of first-person accounts from runaway slaves about their dangerous journeys to freedom.

Volume two of a three-volume anthology of African-American slave narratives that were produced as books in the thirty years preceding the Civil War that offer an insight into the ways African-American writing and American culture were influenced by one another.

Volume one of a three-volume anthology of African-American slave narratives that were produced as books in the thirty years preceding the Civil War that offer an insight into the ways African-American writing and American culture were influenced by one another.

Volume three of a three-volume anthology of African-American slave narratives that were produced as books in the thirty years preceding the Civil War that offer an insight into the ways African-American writing and American culture were influenced by one another.

Presents the true story of Solomon Northup, a born-free black man living in upstate New York. In 1841 he agreed to go with two men to Washington, D.C., supposedly to perform in a circus--instead the men drugged Solomon and took him to the South to sell him into slavery. For twelve years he worked for a variety of different masters, until he met a Canadian abolitionist who got word to his family.

Contains twenty critical essays in which the authors examine various aspects of the slave narrative, discussing its origins and development, form and content, and impact on American literature.