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Testaments of courage : selections from men's slave narratives / by Mary Young and Gerald Horne.

Title
Testaments of courage : selections from men's slave narratives / by Mary Young and Gerald Horne.
Publication
New York : Franklin Watts, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Young, Mary, 1940-
  • Horne, Gerald
Description
128 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Contains selections from the writings of African slaves. These personal narratives, originally published in nineteenth-century newspapers, played a role in turning public opinion against slavery as an institution.
Series Statement
The African-American experience
Uniform Title
African-American experience
Subject
  • Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
  • Slaves
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Louis Asa-Asa, 1831 -- Moses Roper, 1837 -- Lewis Williamson, 1841 -- Frederick Douglass, 1845 -- William Wells Brown, 1847 -- Henry Bibb, 1849 -- Henry Box Brown, 1851 -- Josiah Henson, 1851 -- James Smith, 1852 -- A short and true story of a fugitive, 1855 -- Solomon Northup, 1853 -- William and Ellen Craft, 1860 -- Rev. Noah Davis, 1859 -- Nat Love, 1907 -- The oral accounts of ex-slaves, 1938.
ISBN
0531112055
LCCN
^^^95001766^/AC
OCLC
  • 32013313
  • SCSB-13371888
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library