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Introduction: The language of slavery
WRITTEN BY THEMSELVES: VIEWS AND REVIEWS, 1750-1861. The life of Job Ben Solomon / Anonymous ; The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; written by himself / Anonymous ; The life and adventures of a fugitive slave / Anonymous ; Narrative of James Williams / Anonymous ; The narrative of Juan Manzano / Anonymous ; Narratives of fugitive slaves / Ephraim Peabody ; Life of Henry Bibb / Anonymous ; The life and bondage of Frederick Douglass / Anonymous ; Kidnapped and ransomed / Anonymous ; Linda: incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself / Anonymous
THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS HISTORY. On dialect usage / Sterling A. Brown ; The art and science of reading WPA slave narratives / Paul D. Escott ; History from slave sources / C. Vann Woodward ; Charles Chesnutt and the WPA narratives: the oral and literate roots of Afro-American literature / John Edgar Wideman ; Using the testimony of ex-slaves: approaches and problems / John W. Blassingame ; Plantation factories and the slave work ethic / Gerald Jaynes ; The making of a fugitive slave narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom
a case study / Robin W. Winks
THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS LITERATURE. "I was born": slave narratives, their status as autobiography and as literature / James Olney ; Three West African writers of the 1780s / Paul Edwards ; Crushed geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the language of slavery / Susan Willis ; I rose and found my voice: narration, authentication, and authorial control in four slave narratives / Robert Burns Stepto ; Autobiographical acts and the voice of the Southern slave / Houston A. Baker Jr. ; Text and contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself / Jean Fagan Yellin ; The slave narrators and the picaresque mode : archetypes for modern black personae / Charles H. Nichols ; Singing swords : the literary legacy of slavery / Melvin Dixon.
WRITTEN BY THEMSELVES: VIEWS AND REVIEWS, 1750-1861. The life of Job Ben Solomon / Anonymous ; The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; written by himself / Anonymous ; The life and adventures of a fugitive slave / Anonymous ; Narrative of James Williams / Anonymous ; The narrative of Juan Manzano / Anonymous ; Narratives of fugitive slaves / Ephraim Peabody ; Life of Henry Bibb / Anonymous ; The life and bondage of Frederick Douglass / Anonymous ; Kidnapped and ransomed / Anonymous ; Linda: incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself / Anonymous
THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS HISTORY. On dialect usage / Sterling A. Brown ; The art and science of reading WPA slave narratives / Paul D. Escott ; History from slave sources / C. Vann Woodward ; Charles Chesnutt and the WPA narratives: the oral and literate roots of Afro-American literature / John Edgar Wideman ; Using the testimony of ex-slaves: approaches and problems / John W. Blassingame ; Plantation factories and the slave work ethic / Gerald Jaynes ; The making of a fugitive slave narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom
a case study / Robin W. Winks
THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS LITERATURE. "I was born": slave narratives, their status as autobiography and as literature / James Olney ; Three West African writers of the 1780s / Paul Edwards ; Crushed geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the language of slavery / Susan Willis ; I rose and found my voice: narration, authentication, and authorial control in four slave narratives / Robert Burns Stepto ; Autobiographical acts and the voice of the Southern slave / Houston A. Baker Jr. ; Text and contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself / Jean Fagan Yellin ; The slave narrators and the picaresque mode : archetypes for modern black personae / Charles H. Nichols ; Singing swords : the literary legacy of slavery / Melvin Dixon.