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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... York, and Boston, founded numerous societies for community uplift, sociopolitical debate, and cultural expression during the early decades of thenineteenthcentury.From1830untiltheendoftheCivilWar,freeAfrican Americans held national ...
... York, and Boston, founded numerous societies for community uplift, sociopolitical debate, and cultural expression during the early decades of thenineteenthcentury.From1830untiltheendoftheCivilWar,freeAfrican Americans held national ...
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... York? Nowhere in his narrative does Lane mention Horton, or David Walker for that matter, nor do the narratives of Grandy or Jones indicate that either man had read Horton'swork.Buttwofactors—theremarkablepublicitygiventoHorton's case ...
... York? Nowhere in his narrative does Lane mention Horton, or David Walker for that matter, nor do the narratives of Grandy or Jones indicate that either man had read Horton'swork.Buttwofactors—theremarkablepublicitygiventoHorton's case ...
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... York in 1854. The immense readership that kept Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) selling briskly two years after its initial publication is the most obvious reason why Jones's publishers sought to identify him with the pious, self-sacrificial ...
... York in 1854. The immense readership that kept Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) selling briskly two years after its initial publication is the most obvious reason why Jones's publishers sought to identify him with the pious, self-sacrificial ...
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... York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 203–36; Benjamin Quarles,Black Abolitionists(NewYork:Oxford University Press, 1969); and Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (Chapel Hill: University of North ...
... York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 203–36; Benjamin Quarles,Black Abolitionists(NewYork:Oxford University Press, 1969); and Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (Chapel Hill: University of North ...
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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