Slave Narratives After Slavery provides the complete original text of five overlooked slave narratives that appeared between Reconstruction and the turn ofthe twentieth century, offering historical introductions and suggested further readings for each. INDICE: Introduction (with bibliography); Note on the text; Introduction to Keckley and Behind the Scenes; Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868).; Introduction to Adams and Narrative of the Life; John Quincy Adams, Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman (Harrisburg, Pa. Sieg, 1872).; Introduction to Brown and My Southern Home; William Wells Brown, My Southern Home, or, The South and Its People (Boston: A.G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880).; Introduction to Delaney and From the Darkness Cometh the Light; Lucy Ann Berry Delaney, From the Darkness Cometh the Light; or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, 1891).; Introduction to Hughes and Thirty Years a Slave; Hughes, Louis, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and inthe Home of the Planter (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897).
- ISBN: 978-0-19-517943-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés