Autobiography of Harriet Tubman (c1820-1913). Born in slavery, she drew upon spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped slavery and later succesfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. Celebrated by her primarily white antislavery associates in a va…
Chronicles the life of Harriet Tubman based on the text of stories she told about her life, discussing her childhood in slavery, her religious beliefs, her escape to the North, her role in the Underground Railroad, and other related topics.
Chronicles the life of Harriet Tubman based on the text of stories she told about her life, discussing her childhood in slavery, her religious beliefs, her escape to the North, her role in the Underground Railroad, and other related topics.
Harriet Tubman's name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children's literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez's comprehensive Harriet Tubman is…
In William L. Andrews's magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclos…
"In William L. Andrews's magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclo…
Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.
Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.
Barbary captives: an anthology of early modern slave memoirs by Eur…
by Ólafur Egilsson, Klarer, Mario, Sturmer, Balthasar, Sosa, Antonio de, Aranda, Emanuel d', Quartier, Antoine, Wolfgang, Andreas Matthaüs, Wolfgang, Johann Georg, Brassard, Isaac, Pellow, Thomas, Olufs, Hark, Meetelen, Maria Ter, Berg, Marcus, Marsh, Elizabeth, Caronni, Felice
"In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco no…
