I Was Born a Slave; An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives: 1772-1849

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• ISBN13: 9781556523342
• ISBN10: 1556523343
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

I Was Born a Slave collects the twenty most significant slave narratives and arranges them chronologically in two volumes to form a mini-library of essential black writing. The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, and witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; the kidnapping of a white woman and her rescue by a slave; the nightmarish tortures of the infamous Mr Gooch; the tragicomic experiences of a pair of 'white slaves'; and a story of the 'original Uncle Tom'.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(6)
Introduction	xv
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
A NARRATIVE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PARTICULARS IN THE LIFE OF JAMES ALBERT UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW, AN AFRICAN PRINCE	1	(28)
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)
THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN	29	(152)
William Grimes
LIFE OF WILLIAM GRIMES, THE RUNAWAY SLAVE	181	(54)
Nat Turner
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, THE LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON, VA.	235	(24)
Charles Ball
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CHARLES BALL, A BLACK MAN, WHO LIVED FORTY YEARS IN MARYLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA AS A SLAVE	259	(228)
Moses Roper
A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES AND ESCAPE OF MOSES ROPER, FROM AMERICAN SLAVERY	487	(36)
Frederick Douglass
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE	523	(78)
Lewis
Milton Clarke