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. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1977.

Berlin, Ira, et. al., eds. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, 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, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana 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 the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.

Donnan, Elizabeth, ed. Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America. 4 vols. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1930-1935.

Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life; My Bondage and My Freedom; Life and Times. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 1994.

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 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, 1997

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. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

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 Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers). New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Meltzer, Milton. The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1619-1983. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

Osofsky, Gilbert, ed. Puttin' On Ole Massa. The Slave Narratives of Henry 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 Ex-Slaves. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1992.

Porter, Dorothy, ed. Early Negro Writing 1760-1837. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1971.

Richardson, Marilyn, ed. Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Shields, John C., ed. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Taylor, Susie King. A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs. ed. Patricia W. Romero and Will Lee Rose. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 1988.

Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. New York: Penguin, 1986.





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