Unflinching accounts of slavery in the antebellum American South are presented in moving testimonies of five African-American women. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope — from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account of a lone woman's tribulations and courage to Annie Burton's eulogy to motherhood.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Mostly well worth reading,
This review is from: Women's Slave Narratives (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
These are not slave narratives, per se, but brief memoirs of five former slaves relating their experiences both in slavery and after the Civil War. The oldest dates from 1863, and the newest from 1909. They are, with one exception, engrossing and well written, though not representative (at least a couple of the authors end up in northern states after the Civil War, all seem to have attained a fairly high level of education, and none of them ends up sharecropping). The one bad apple is Kate Drumgoold, whose nearly 50-page story (by far the longest in the book), is so poorly organized and lacking interest as to be unreadable. It is not so much an autobiography as a breathless, meaningless paean to God and the various white people she encountered over the course of her long life. Thankfully it cannot spoil the bunch.
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must have books!!!!,
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I have just strated collecting these books and can,t get enought.
I love so much about them the info. And spoke from the slaves them self. most interesting part of history I must say. sign totally hook. Julia Jones N.J.
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Being a peason that looks into Slave narratives,They were in some cases to short, an incomplete.Remember these are my feelings.
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