{"product_id":"9781598532128","title":"Slave Narratives (LOA #114): James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw \/ Olaudah Equiano \/ Nat Turner \/ Frederick Douglass \/ William Wells Brown \/ Henry Bibb \/ Sojourner Truth \/ William and Ell","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom and dignity. They demonstrate the power of the written word to affirm a person’s—and a people’s—humanity in a society poisoned by racism. \u003ci\u003eSlave Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and, through their expression of anger, pain, sorrow, and courage, laid the foundations of the African-American literary tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis volume collects ten works published between 1772 and 1864:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• \u003cb\u003eNarratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789)\u003c\/b\u003e recount how they were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e• \u003cb\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (1831)\u003c\/b\u003e provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history.\u003cbr\u003e• The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves \u003cb\u003eFrederick Douglass (1845), William Wells Brown (1847), and Henry Bibb (1849)\u003c\/b\u003e strengthened the abolitionist cause by exposing the hypocrisies inherent in a slaveholding society ostensibly dedicated to liberty and Christian morality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e• \u003cb\u003eThe Narrative of Sojourner Truth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (1850) \u003c\/b\u003edescribes slavery in the North while expressing the \u003cbr\u003eeloquent fervor of a dedicated woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e• \u003cb\u003eRunning a Thousand Miles for Freedom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (1860)\u003c\/b\u003e tells the story of William and Ellen Craft’s subversive and ingenious escape from Georgia to Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e• \u003cb\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (1861)\u003c\/b\u003e is Harriet Jacobs’s complex and moving story of her prolonged resistance to sexual and racial oppression.\u003cbr\u003e• The narrative of the “trickster” \u003cb\u003eJacob Green (1864)\u003c\/b\u003e presents a disturbing story full of wild humor and intense cruelty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, these works fuse memory, advocacy, and defiance into a searing collective portrait of American life before emancipation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlave Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e contains a chronology of events in the history of slavery, as well as biographical and explanatory notes and an essay on the texts.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546017091825,"sku":"9781598532128","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781598532128_p0.jpg?v=1766012136","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598532128","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}