Slave Narratives and Autobiographies

<b>Slave Narratives and Autobiographies,</b> <i> updated 6/15/2008</i>
Slave Narratives and Autobiographies, updated 6/15/2008
Item# ISBN 0917466667
$19.00

Product Description

This CD, with 48 books, collects first-hand accounts of life under slavery, including "Slave Narratives" compiled by the US Government during the depression, as part of the Federal Writers' Project, based on interviews with former slaves; and also autobiographies by former slaves.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the US from Interviews with Former Slaves", compiled, edited, and published as part of the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1941

    • Introduction
    • Volume 2 Arkansas
      • part 1
      • part 2
      • part 3
      • part 4
      • part 5
      • part 6
      • part 7
    • Volume 3 Florida
    • Volume 4 Georgia
      • part 1
      • part 2
      • part 3
      • part 4
    • Volume 5 Indiana
    • Volume 6, Kansas
    • Volume 7 Kentucky
    • Volume 8 Maryland
    • Volume 9 Mississippi
    • Volume 11 North Carolina
      • part 1
    • Volume 12 Ohio
    • Volume 13 Oklahoma
    • Volume 14 South Carolina
      • part 1
      • part 2
    • Volume 15 Tennessee

Slave Autobiographies

  • Behind the Scenes or 30 Years a Slave and 4 Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keeley
  • Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson, 1875
  • The Fugitive Blacksmith or Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington, 1849
  • The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Herself
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent
  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana or Gustavus Vassa the African
  • Memoirs of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie Burton
  • Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman
  • My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer, 1898
  • Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
  • Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, 1864
  • A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Coloured Man
  • Narrative of the  Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, 1772
  • Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, 1844
  • Narrative of Lunsford Lane, 1842
  • Narrative of William W. Brown, 1847
  • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft
  • A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgold
  • The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
  • Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes
  • Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, 1856
  • Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
  • Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
    • My Bondage and My Freedom
    • Articles: My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction
    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass