Great slave narratives. / Selected and introduced by Arna Bontemps.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973, editor, writer of introduction.

Contributor:

• Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
• Enslaved persons.
• United States.
• Enslaved persons' writings, American.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 331 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Beacon Press, 1969.

Summary:

This genre, an exciting and too little known part of American literature and history, has played an important role in the development of such distinguished authors as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.

Contents:

• The slave narrative; an American genre / by A. Bontemps
• The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / written by himself
• The fugitive blacksmith; or, Events in the history of James W. C. Pennington, pastor of a Presbyterian church, New York, formerly a slave in the State of Maryland
• Running a thousand miles for freedom; or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
• Banks Collection copy is paperback edition in series BP 331.

ISBN:

• 0807054720
• 0807054739

OCLC:

32488