North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. JonesWilliam L. Andrews The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson. |
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... British clergyman who wrote the preface to Roper's narrativesolicitedcuriousandprurientreadersbypromisingthemakindofpious pornography: ''There is no vice too loathsome—no passion too cruel or remorseless, to be engendered by this horrid ...
... British clergyman who wrote the preface to Roper's narrativesolicitedcuriousandprurientreadersbypromisingthemakindofpious pornography: ''There is no vice too loathsome—no passion too cruel or remorseless, to be engendered by this horrid ...
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... British and American editions, including a translation into Celtic, by 1856. A veteran antislavery orator in England, where he reckoned he had given 2,000 speeches by 1844,12 Roper might have become more widely known in the United ...
... British and American editions, including a translation into Celtic, by 1856. A veteran antislavery orator in England, where he reckoned he had given 2,000 speeches by 1844,12 Roper might have become more widely known in the United ...
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... British Isles, 1830– 1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985). 13. William G. Hawkins, Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863). 14. Cecelski,The Waterman's Song, 27 ...
... British Isles, 1830– 1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985). 13. William G. Hawkins, Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863). 14. Cecelski,The Waterman's Song, 27 ...
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... British Isles, 1830– 1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Scarry, Elaine.The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Starling, Marion Wilson.The Slave ...
... British Isles, 1830– 1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Scarry, Elaine.The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Starling, Marion Wilson.The Slave ...
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Contents
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of MOSES ROPER Introduction | 23 |
Narrative | 35 |
The Narrative of LUNSFORD LANE Introduction | 79 |
Narrative | 93 |
Narrative of the Life of MOSES GRANDY Introduction | 133 |
Narrative | 153 |
The Experience of REV THOMAS H JONES Introduction | 189 |
Narrative | 203 |
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