Six Women's Slave Narratives

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J.Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a 97-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A.Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave's achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L.Burton also describe their successes in the postwar North while eulogizing black motherhood in the antebellum South.

Contents:

-Introduction by William L. Andrews

-The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) (includes The Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African). Originally edited by Thomas Pringle.

-Memoirs of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863)

-The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866). Written and arranged by Dr. L. S. Thompson

-From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) by Lucy. A. Delaney

-A Slave Girl's Story (1898) by Kate Drumgoold

-Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909) by Annie. L. Burton

• Author
• William L. Andrews

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 384

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780195060836

• Genres
• history, memoir

• Release date
• 1989