The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives

by William L. Andrews and Counterpoint

Book Overview

Hailed in 1849 as "a new department in the literature of civilization," the slave narrative forms the foundation of the African American literary tradition. From the late-eighteenth-century narratives... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582430195
• ISBN13: 9781582430195
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Should Be Required Reading!

Powerful narratives from those who survived slavery detailing their struggles as slaves, struggles for freedom, and beginnings of establishing new lives. This book should be required reading for all high school students. Insights into human nature, perserverance, and love are all touched upon and I could not believe the strengths of these slaves just getting through life. Powerful beyond any reviewers' words.

A superlative anthology, but ...

For a more complete collection of slave narratives, check out I WAS BORN A SLAVE, edited by Yuval Taylor. For the price of this volume, you get two paperback volumes with a total of twenty narratives: six of these seven, plus fourteen more, most of them unavailable elsewhere. Unlike this book, it is also extensively annotated.