Six women's slave narratives
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Six women's slave narratives
（The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century black women writers / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor）
Oxford University Press, 1988
- : set
- : hard
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Contents of Works
- The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave / originally edited by Thomas Pringle
- Memoir of old Elizabeth, a coloured woman
- The story of Mattie J. Jackson / written and arranged by L.S. Thompson
- From the darkness cometh the light or struggles for freedom / Lucy A. Delaney
- A slave girl's story / Kate Drumgoold
- Memories of childhood's slavery days / Annie L. Burton
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Description
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a ninety-seven-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light or
Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave's achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L. Burton also describe their successes in the postwar North while eulogizing black motherhood in the antebellum South.
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