Bibliograph

Great slave narratives, selected and introduced by Arna Bontemps

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Label

Great slave narratives, selected and introduced by Arna Bontemps

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Great slave narratives

Oclc number

32488

Responsibility statement

selected and introduced by Arna Bontemps

Summary

Three selected narratives exemplify an interesting, sometimes little-known area of American Negro history and writing

Table Of Contents

The slave narrative; an American genre, by A. Bontemps.--The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself.--The fugitive blacksmith; or, Events in the history of James W.C. Pennington, pastor of a Presbyterian church, New York, formerly a slave in the State of Maryland.--Running a thousand miles for freedom; or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery

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