The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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These amazing stories are not only first-person histories of the highest caliber, they are also a unique literary form that has given birth to the spirit, vitality, and vision of America's modern black writers. The Classic Slave Narratives: The Life of Olaudah Equiano / The History of Mary Prince / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's top experts in African American studies, presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery.įascinating and powerful, this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent), Mary Price, and Olaudah Equiano (alias Gustavus Vassa). No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. Before the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of. reminds the reader that while the founders of this country were fighting off the British and writing about their freedoms. The book written by American educator and scholar, Henry Lewis, Gates, Jr. A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.īefore the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. The Classic Slave Narratives - Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Classic Slave Narratives is a book compiled of four extremely powerful stories of individuals who survived the enslavement in Colonial America.

The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates Jr.