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Two Biographies of African-American Women
Contains the biography of an American bondman William Wells Brown, written by his daughter Josephine Brown, and the ground-breaking biography of Martin R. Delany, which helped to …
Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)
This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of …
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
A far cry from the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition, this book, written in 1857, is a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole, a …
Classic African American Women's Narratives
Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African …
The Quest of the Silver Fleece (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States …
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 …
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same …
Toni Morrison's Beloved
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars …
Slave Narratives after Slavery
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative …
Slavery and Class in the American South
"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, …