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Black women writing autobiography : a tradition within a tradition / Joanne M. Braxton.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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The slave narrative : its place in American history / Marion Wilson Starling.
- Text
- Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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Power in the blood [microform] : the polemics of the fugitive slave narrative / by Norman Emanuel Brand.
- Text
- 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
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Render me my song : African American women writers from slavery to the present / Sandi Russell.
- Text
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.
- 1990
- 2 Items
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Cut loose your stammering tongue : black theology in the slave narratives / edited by Dwight N. Hopkins and George C.L. Cummings.
- Text
- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Subjects of slavery, agents of change : women and power in Gothic novels and slave narratives, 1790-1865 / Kari J. Winter.
- Text
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
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The narrative of Lunsford Lane : formerly of Raleigh, N.C., embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin / published by himself.
- Text
- [Boston] : [Lunsford Lane], 1842.
- 1842
- 1 Item
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Between slavery and freedom : philosophy and American slavery / by Howard McGary and Bill E. Lawson.
- Text
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
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Out of the ditch : a true story of an ex-slave / by J. Vance Lewis.
- Text
- Houston, Texas : Rein & Sons Co., printers, 1910.
- 1910
- 2 Items
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(Dis)forming the American canon : African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular / Ronald A.T. Judy ; foreword by Wahneema Lubiano.
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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By the sweat of the brow : literature and labor in antebellum America / Nicholas K. Bromell.
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 2 Items
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A study of African American slave narratives as a source for a contemporary constructive Black theology [microform] / by Willie E. Coleman, jr.
- Text
- 1993
- 1993
- 1 Item
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Life of William Grimes [microform] : the runaway slave / written by himself.
- Text
- New York : [s.n.], 1825.
- 1825
- 1 Item
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Four fugitive slave narratives. With introductions by Robin W. Winks [and others]
- Text
- Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. [1969]
- 1969
- 1 Item
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Dismantling black manhood : an historical and literary analysis of the legacy of slavery / Daniel P. Black.
- Text
- New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
- 1997
- 2 Items
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Il racconto della schiavitù negli Stati Uniti d'America / Annalucia Accardo.
- Text
- Roma : Bulzoni, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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The ghost in the machine : text and subtext in the narratives of nineteenth-century African American women writers / by Shelli Booth Fowler.
- Text
- 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution' [microform] / by Peter Randolph, an emancipated slave.
- Text
- Boston : Published for the author, 1855.
- 1855
- 1 Item
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It be's hard sometimes : the rhetorical invention of Black female persona in pre-emancipatory slave narratives / by Olga Idriss Davis.
- Text
- 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
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The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives / edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Text
- Washington, D.C. : Civitas/Counterpoint, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 99-184 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives / edited by Yuval Taylor ; foreword by Charles Johnson.
- Text
- Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
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Pioneers of the Black Atlantic : five slave narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William L. Andrews.
- Text
- Washington, D.C. : Civitas, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
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Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy.
- Text
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
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Imagining grace : liberating theologies in the slave narrative tradition / Kimberly Rae Connor.
- Text
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
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Slave narratives.
- Text
- [New York] : Library of America : Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam, c2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
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Romanticism and slave narratives : transatlantic testimonies / [Helen Thomas].
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
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Voices of the fugitives : runaway slave stories and their fictions of self-creation / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
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African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories / Alan Govenar.
- Text
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
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Rethinking the slave narrative : slave marriage and the narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft / Charles J. Heglar.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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African American slave narratives : an anthology / edited by Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
- 2001
- 3 Items
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The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance / Christina Accomando.
- Text
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral [microform] / by Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England.
- Text
- Walpole, N.H. : Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by David Newhall, 1802.
- 1802
- 1 Item
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / by Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to the late Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, Mass.
- Text
- Hartford, Conn. : Printed by Oliver Steele, 1804.
- 1804
- 1 Item
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The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865 / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
- Text
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Voice in the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup / Carver Wendell Waters.
- Text
- Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
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Ausbruch aus der Knechtschaft : das amerikanische slave narrative zwischen Unabhängigkeitserklärung und Bürgerkrieg / Maria Diedrich.
- Text
- Stuttgart : F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 12-18279 Offsite Cut loose your stammering tongue : Black theology in the slave narratives / edited by Dwight N. Hopkins and George C.L. Cummings.
- Text
- Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, c2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
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Radical narratives of the Black Atlantic / Alan Rice.
- Text
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
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Life and narrative of William Anderson, or, The dark deeds of American slavery revealed : containing scriptural views of the origin of the black man and white man : also, a simple and easy plan to abolish slavery in the United States : together with some account of the services of colored men in the Revolutionary War--day and date, and interesting facts / written by himself.
- Text
- Chicago : Daily Tribune Book and Job Office, 1857.
- 1857
- 1 Item
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Up from slavery / by Booker T. Washington ; with related documents ; edited with an introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
- Text
- Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
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The blind African slave, or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery Brace / edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter.
- Text
- Madison ; London : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
- 2004-1810
- 2 Items
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Levi Coffin and "The underground railroad" : Aunt Rachel.
- Text
- [London : Leisure Hour, 1881]
- 1881
- 1 Item
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Slave narratives : the journey to freedom / [compiled] by Elaine Landau.
- Text
- New York : Franklin Watts, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery / DoVeanna S. Fulton.
- Text
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Solomon Northup's Twelve years a slave : and plantation life in the antebellum South / [edited by] Sue Eakin.
- Text
- Lafayette, LA : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, c2007.
- 2007-1853
- 1 Item
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Slave narratives / James Tackach, book editor.
- Text
- San Diego, CA. : Greenhaven Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Life of William Grimes, the runaway slave / edited by William L. Andrews and Regina E. Mason.
- Text
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
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Beyond Douglass : new perspectives on early African-American literature / edited by Michael J. Drexler and Ed White.
- Text
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828.
- Text
- Boston : Printed for the author, 1853.
- 1853
- 1 Item
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- Text
- New York : [s.n.], 1825.
- 1825
- 1 Item
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