Overview :Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his ... Read More
Overview :The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock o... Read More
Overview :Growing up as a slave in an urban area of Missouri allowed William Wells Brown to live a life that was different from that of the plantation... Read More
Overview :The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J.Jackson... Read More
Overview :With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increas... Read More
Overview :The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Rena... Read More
Overview :The most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most ... Read More
Overview :This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Ri... Read More
Overview :The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies--including those of Benjamin F... Read More
Overview :This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary chara... Read More
Overview :The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundat... Read More
Overview :Sisters of the Spirit... should interest a wider audience.... These fascinating accounts can stand on their own.... Mr. Andrews has made the... Read More
Overview :Four early American women tell their own stories: Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676, Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knigh... Read More
Overview :"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with oth... Read More
Overview :To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition -- the autobiography -... Read More