Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives [Hardcover]

William Loren Katz (Compiler)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1994 | ISBN-10: 0865434131 | ISBN-13: 978-0865434134

Detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

During the early 19th century some African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system. Perceptive, dramatic and often starkly horrifying, these narratives dared to challenge their author's former owners who sang the praises of human bondage. Having examined the slave narratives, recent scholars have judged them historically accurate and reliable, and the most significant form of early African American literature.

The six narratives in this volume are: Linda Brent, who was held in sexual bondage until she fled to freedom and wrote her story; William Wells Brown, a runaway who became the first African American novelist and playwright; James Pennington who escaped to become a minister and civil rights activist in Brooklyn; Lunsford Lane, an inventor/entrepreneur who purchased his family's freedom; Jacob Stroyer, who was liberated during the war and became a minister in Salem, Massachusetts; and Moses Grandy, who escaped to England and wrote his book. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

William Loren Katz is the author of 33 books and editor of 212 others on people of color, and has been a researcher of African American History since 1945. He is the author of Black People Who Made The Old West (AWP, 1993). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Africa World Pr (February 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865434131
• ISBN-13: 978-0865434134
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,328,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)