From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England

by Cottrol,Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780765601100
• ISBN10: 0765601109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume is accompanied by Cottrol's introduction, which discusses their significance and the window that they open on the lives of black New Englanders as they moved from eighteenth century slavery to freedom and the struggle for equality in the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America	1	(32)
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge	33	(16)
Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut	49	(24)
The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. with Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island	73	(130)
Life of George Henry Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America	203	(12)
A Select Bibliography on the Black Experience in New England	215	(2)
Index	217