Slave Narratives After Slavery

by William L. Andrews

The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195179439
• ISBN13: 9780195179439
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"