Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Author : Henry Bibb
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN :
The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Author : Henry Bibb
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 029916893X
Book Description
First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb is among the most remarkable slave narratives. Born on a Kentucky plantation in 1815, Bibb first attempted to escape from bondage at the age of ten. He was recaptured and escaped several more times before he eventually settled in Detroit, Michigan, and joined the antislavery movement as a lecturer. Bibb’s story is different in many ways from the widely read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. He was owned by a Native American; he is one of the few ex-slave autobiographers who had labored in the Deep South (Louisiana); and he writes about folkways of the slaves, especially how he used conjure to avoid punishment and to win the hearts of women. Most significant, he is unique in exploring the importance of marriage and family to him, recounting his several trips to free his wife and child. This new edition includes an introduction by literary scholar Charles Heglar and a selection of letters and editorials by Bibb.
Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781883011765
Book Description
The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Slave's Narrative
Author : Charles T. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0195362020
Book Description
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.
A Slave No More
Author : David W. Blight
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156034517
Book Description
Shares the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, former slaves who, in the midst of chaos during the Civil War, escaped to the North and lived to tell about their experiences.
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF HENRY BIBB, AN AMERICAN SLAVE.
Author : HENRY. BIBB
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2024
Category :
ISBN : 9788889424490
Book Description
From Behind the Veil
Author : Robert B. Stepto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252062117
Book Description
This pioneering study of Afro-American narrative is far more critical, historical, and textual than biographical, chronological, and atextual. Robert Stepto asserts that Afro-American culture has its store of canonical stories or pregeneric myths, the primary one being the quest for freedom and literacy. This second edition includes a new preface and an afterward entitled "Distrust of the Reader in Afro-American Narratives."
The Education of a WASP
Author : Lois M. Stalvey
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299119734
Book Description
Brimming with honestly and passion, The Education of a WASP chronicles one white woman's discovery of racism in 1960s America. First published in 1970 and highly acclaimed by reviewers, Lois Stalvey's account is as timely now as it was then. Nearly twenty years later, with ugly racial incidents occurring on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in workplaces everywhere, her account of personal encounters with racism remains deeply disturbing. Educators and general readers interested in the subtleties of racism will find the story poignant, revealing, and profoundly moving. “Delightful and horrible, a singular book.” —Choice “An extraordinarily honest and revealing book that poses the issue: loyalty to one’s ethnic group or loyalty to conscience.” —Publishers Weekly
Life Under Slavery
Author : Linda Brent
Publisher : Red & Black Pub
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781934941805
Book Description
Autoibiographies of three pre-Civil War African-American slaves."Northerners know nothing at all about Slavery. They think it is perpetual bondage only. They have no conception of the depth of degradation involved in that word, slavery; if they had, they would never cease their efforts until so horrible a system was overthrown."
Witnessing Slavery
Author : Frances Smith Foster
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299142148
Book Description
**** New edition of the Greenwood Press original of 1979 (which is cited in BCL3), with a new introduction, chapter, and a supplementary bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
