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 paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 1989
- : pbk
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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1989"--T.p. verso
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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 post-war North while eulogizing black motherhood in the ante-bellum South.
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