Research Guides: Slavery and the Slave Trade: Manuscripts & Printed Narratives

Published Narratives

North American Slave Narratives (UNC Chapel Hill)
Collection of books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920, along with many biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920.

Up from slavery : an autobiography by Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 9780585052632
In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments. In simply written yet stirring passages, he tells of his impoverished childhood and youth, the unrelenting struggle for an education, early teaching assignments, his selection in 1881 to head Tuskegee Institute, and more.
Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: UMCP McKeldin Library E444 .S56 2000
ISBN: 1883011760
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
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 American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.
Six Women's Slave Narratives by Mary Prince; Mattie Jackson; Elizabeth Delaney; Lucy Delaney; Kate Drumgoold; William Andrews (Contribution by)
Call Number: UMCP McKeldin Library E444 .S59 1988
ISBN: 0195052625
Publication Date: 1988-04-14
What shines through each of these stories is the black woman's ability to recover in past oppression the hope for a better day.
Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks by Loren Schweninger (Editor); Robert Shelton (Editor); Charles Edward Smith (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1556557329
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Reproduces a collection of nearly 3,000 petitions assembled over a period of ten years by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

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