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Collected Black women's narratives / with an introduction by Anthony G. Barthelemy.
LIBRA E185.96 .C64 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers
- The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- African American women--History--19th century.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xlviii, 89 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 60, 46 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 82 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Contents:
- A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1853: originally published in 1850) / Nancy Prince
- Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life (1861) / Rev. H. Mattison, A. M.
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman (1889)
- Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: With the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902) / Susie King Taylor.
- Notes:
- "Whenever possible, the volumes in this set were reproduced directly from original materials. When availability, physical condition of original texts, or other circumstances prohibit this, volumes or portions of volumes were reset."--Publisher's Note.
- "The four autobiographical narratives published in this volume span a volatile fifty-year period of American history, from 1853 when Nancy Prince published the enlarged second edition ... to 1902 when Susie King Taylor published 'Reminiscences of My Life in Camp'."--Introduction
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvii-xlviii).
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1989
- Contains:
- Prince, Nancy, 1799- Narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince.
- Picquet, Louisa, 1828?- Louisa Picquet, the octoroon.
- Veney, Bethany. Narrative of Bethany Veney.
- Taylor, Susie King, 1848-1912. Reminiscences of my life in camp.
- ISBN:
- 0195052609
- OCLC:
- 16527114
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