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Slave Narratives

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman : myth, memory, and history by Milton C. Sernett
Call Number: E444.T82 S45 2007

Below are some examples of books in our collection.

Harriet Tubman : the life and the life stories by Jean Humez
Call Number: E444.T82 H86 2003
Bound for the promised land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero by Kay Clifford Larson
Call Number: E444.T82 L37 2004

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself with related documents by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449 .D749 2003

Below are some examples of books in our collection.

Frederick Douglass : selected speeches and writings by Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895
Call Number: E449 .D7345 1999
The Frederick Douglass papers. Series two, Autobiographical writings by Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895
Call Number: E449 .D734 1999

Nat Turner

Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Call Number: PS3569.T9 C6 1967

Below are some examples of books in our collection.

The Nat Turner slave insurrection. by Frank Roy Johnson
Call Number: F232.S7 J6
Nat Turner : a slave rebellion in history and memory by Kenneth S. Greenberg
Call Number: F232.S7 N46 2003

Slaves' writings

A slave no more by David W. Blight
Call Number: E450.W325 B58 2007

Below are some examples of books in our collection.

Black slave narratives by John F. Bayliss
Call Number: E444 .B23
African American frontiers: slave narratives and oral histories by Alan B. Govenar
Call Number: E444 .G68 2000
Slavery remembered: a record of twentieth-century slave narratives by Paul D. Escott
Call Number: E444 .G68 2000
Black Indian slave narratives by Patrick Minges
Call Number: E444 .B615 2004

Slaves-United States-Biography

Six women's slave narratives by William L. Andrews
Call Number: E444 .S59 1988

Below are some examples of books in our collection.

The classic slave narratives by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Call Number: E444 .C49 1987
Four fugitive slave narratives by Robin W. Winks
Call Number: E450 .F75
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave by F.N. Boney
Call Number: E444 .B87 1991
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: five slave narratives from the Englightenment, 1772-1815 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Call Number: E444 .P56 1998
I was born a slave: an anthology of classic slave narratives by Yuval Taylor
Call Number: E444 .I18 1999
Life under the "peculiar institution"; selections from the Slave Narrative Collection by Norman R. Yetman
Call Number: E444 .Y4

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