Chapter IV.
RESOURCES
Adult -- Primary Slave Narratives/Documents on Slavery
Andrews, William L., ed. Six Women's Slave Narratives. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1988
Baker, T. Lindsay. Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life.
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Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: The New Press, 1992.
Billington, Ray Allen, ed. The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in
the Slave Era. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1961.
Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters,
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State University Press, 1977.
Bontemps, Arna, ed. Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.
Botkin, B. A., ed. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. New
York: Delta, 1994
Bradford, Sarah. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People. Boston:
Applewood Books, 1886.
Curtin, Philip D., ed. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from
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Donnan, Elizabeth, ed. Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America.
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Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life; My Bondage
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or Gustavus Vasa the African. Ed. Paul Edwards. 2 vols. London:
Heinemann, 1967.
Ferguson, Moira, ed. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave -
Related By Herself. Rev. ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
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Gaines, Ernest J., The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman. New York:
Bantam Books, 1982. (fiction)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Charles T. Davis, eds. The Slave's Narrative.
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Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Ed.
Jean FaganYellin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four
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Bibb, William Wells Brown and Solomon Northup. New York: Harper
and Row, 1969.
Perdue, Charles et al., eds. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia
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Porter, Dorothy, ed. Early Negro Writing 1760-1837. Baltimore: Black
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Richardson, Marilyn, ed. Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman
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Oxford University Press, 1988.
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