Only by experience : an anthology of slave narratives / general editors, The Broadview anthology of American literature: Derrick R. Spires, Cornell University [and eleven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spires, Derrick Ramon, editor.

Series:

A Broadview anthology of American literature edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave narratives.

Enslaved persons' writings.

Enslaved persons--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies

Biographies

Slave narratives

Slave narratives.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

686 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The historical and literary importance that slave narratives--the autobiographical accounts written by formerly enslaved people in the United States and throughout the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--wielded in their own time and continue to wield in ours is difficult to overstate. Popular and widely read on both sides of the Atlantic, slave narratives played an indispensable role in the campaigns against slavery in Britain and the United States and in the development of a black literary tradition, and they continue to be widely read and to shape popular understandings and memories of slavery today. Only by Experience: An Anthology of Slave Narratives collects, in whole or in part, sixteen of the most significant and influential slave narratives in English. Based on material from the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of British Literature and Broadview Anthology of American Literature, the anthology includes works from the British Empire as well as the United States and puts classic examples of the slave narrative genre in conversation with works that raise questions about how the genre is defined. The anthology also features thorough headnotes and annotations for each work, as well as detailed contextual materials for many of the works included."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Timeline: Transatlantic Slavery and Black Writing in English, 1444-1865

A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself / James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man / Briton Hammon

from The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace / Boyrereau Brinch

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa / Venture Smith

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African / Written by Himself

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself / Mary Prince

An Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa / David George

from Twelve Years a Slave / Solomon Northrup

from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave / Sojourner Truth

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself / Harriet Jacobs

from The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. William Johnson ; Harriet Tubman ; John W. Lindsey ; from William Grose ; from William A. Hall

from The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown / William Wells Brown

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself ; from My Bondage and My Freedom ; from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass

from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom / William and Ellen Craft

Maps.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Only by experience.

ISBN:

1554816416

9781554816415

OCLC:

1360271983

Publisher Number:

90101224564