Slave Narratives

Tenets

Literary Movements: Slave Narratives An Introduction to the Slave Narrative

Links

Excerpts from Slave Narratives - Grouped Thematically Harriet Jacobs - Life of a Slave Girl - Online Text of Book - grouped by chapter Allen Parker Slave Narrative, The - annotated slave narrative byAllen Parker of Chowan County, NC. Includes maps, images, documents, and timelines. American Slave Narratives American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography - subscription-based collection of WPA slave narratives. Ancestry.com: Black History Month - search an exhaustive listing of slave narratives or browse by topic. Born in Slavery - contains thousands of first-person accounts of slavery and black-and-white photographs of former slaves. Confessions of Nat Turner(1800-1831) Equiano, Olaudah (c.1745-1797) - also called Gustavus Vassa, the Africa My Escape From Slavery - by Frederick Douglass. Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives - interviews with former slaves who escaped to Canada. Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices - online exhibit from the Special Collections Library at Duke.