Collected Black women's narratives

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Collected Black women's narratives

with an introduction by Anthony G. Barthelemy

（The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century black women writers / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor）（Oxford paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 1990, c1988

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Contents of Works

• A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince / Nancy Prince
• Louisa Picquet, the octoroom / H. Mattison
• The narrative of Bethany Veney
• Reminiscences of my life in camp / Susie King Taylor

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These narratives by four black women - Louisa Picquet, Susie King Taylor, Bethany Veney, and Nancy Prince - testify to their struggles to maintain dignity and independence in the hostile, and frequently violent, society of antebellum America. Picquet and Veney's reminiscence of slave life are complemented by Susie King Taylor's description of nursing for the Union during the Civil War, and Nancy Prince's travel writings (she visited Europe, Russia, and Jamaica). The common thread in these texts is resistance.

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Details

• NCID: BA77180667
• ISBN:
  • 0195066693
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xlviii, 89, iv, 60, 46, xii, 82 p
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E185.96
  • DC19 : 920.72/08996073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : African American women -- Biography
  • LCSH : African American women -- History -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03687505
  • BA00075182