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Slave Narratives

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The sailor, who had served in the slave trade. (From Southey's poems.) by Robert Southey
Call Number: Early American Imprints Evans 48605
In September, 1798, a dissenting minister of Bristol, discovered a sailor in the neighbourhood of that city, groaning and praying in a hovel. The circumstance that occasioned his agony of mind is detailed in the annexed ballad.
Friends and countrymen, [microform] : The critical time is now come, when you are reduced to the necessity of forming a resolution ... whether Pennsylvanians, from henceforward, shall be freemen or slaves. ... by John Dickinson
Call Number: Early American Imprints Evans 9949 & Evans 41439

Encyclopedias and Important Reference Books

The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative
The American slave : a composite autobiography : supplement, series 1
A 12 volume set of actual slave narratives.
The American slave : a composite autobiography
A mutiple volume set of actual slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project.
Index to The American slave
An index to check biographies.
A comprehensive name index for The American slave
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865-1980
Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance (Volume 50 of The Dictionary of Literary Biography)
The Slave Narrative: It's Place in American History

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