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The historical and literary importance that slave narratives—the autobiographical accounts written by formerly enslaved people in the United States and throughout the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—wielded in their own time and continue to wield in ours is difficult to overstate. Popular and widely read on both sides of the Atlantic, slave narratives played an indispensable role in the campaigns against slavery in Britain and the United States and in the development of a black literary tradition, and they continue to be widely read and to shape popular understandings and memories of slavery today. "Only By Experience": An Anthology of Slave Narratives collects, in whole or in part, sixteen of the most significant and influential slave narratives. Based on material from the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of British Literature and Broadview Anthology of American Literature, the anthology includes works from the British empire as well as the United States and puts classic examples of the slave narrative genre in conversation with works that raise questions about how the genre is defined. The anthology also features thorough headnotes and annotations for each work, as well as detailed contextual materials for many of the works included.
Contents
PrefaceJames Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as related by Himself
Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro
Boyrereau Brinch, from The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace
Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa
Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
In Context:
Equiano's Narrative as a Philadelphia Abolitionist Pamphlet
Reactions to Olaudah Equiano's Work
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, A West African Slave, Related by Herself
In Context:
Mary Prince's Petition Presented to Parliament
from Thomas Pringle, Supplement to the History of Mary Prince
from The Narrative of Ashton Warner
David George, An Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in AfricaSolomon Northrup, from 12 Years a Slave
In Context
Roaring River [sheet music]
Solomon Northrup in the Popular Press
Sojourner Truth, from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave
In Context
Speech at the Akron, Ohio Women's Rights Convention
Sojourner Truth's Cartes de Viste
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself
In Context
Fugitive Slave Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs
from Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, with Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, 'The Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters the Women of the United States of America'
from Julia Tyler, 'To the Duchess of Sutherland and the Ladies of England,' Southern Literary Messenger
from Harriet Jacobs, 'Letter from a Fugitive Slave,' New York Daily Tribune
from The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
William Johnson
Harriet Tubman
John W. Lindsey
from William Grose
William Wells Brown, from The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself
from My Bondage and My Freedom
from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
In Context
Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, from The New York Tribune
A.C.C. Thompson, 'To the Public. Falsehood Refuted,' from The Delaware Republican, reprinted in The Liberator
Frederick Douglass, 'Reply to Mr. A.C.C. Thompson,' The Liberator
To My Old Master
Photographs of Frederick Douglass
William and Ellen Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
