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9780451627261

The Classic Slave Narratives The Life Olaudah Equiano The hist Mary Prince Narrative Life Frederick Dougalas

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    9780451627261

  • ISBN10:

    0451627261

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1987-09-01
  • Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM
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Summary

These autobiographical narratives are the first texts in which black slaves began to proclaim themselves as human beings. The literature forms an intriguing personal tapestry, encompassing varied stories but inevitably depicting the horrors of human bondadge.

Author Biography

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at Cornell University, and also tenured at Yale, Duke, and Harvard, where he was appointed W.E.B. DuBois professor of humanities in 1991. Professor Gates is the author of Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self, Wonders of the African World, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars, and Colored People: A Memoir. With Cornel West, he co-wrote The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country and The Future of the Race. He is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed edition of Our Nig, an annotated reprint of Harriet E. Wilson’s 1859 novel, The Slave’s Narrative (with the late Charles T. Davis), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Six Women’s Slave Narratives, and In the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize.

Table of Contents

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
1(182)
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave
183(60)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an African Slave
243(90)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
333

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