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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... abolitionists in the early years of the movement. When the American Convention of Abolition Societies met in 1800 to undertake a history of slavery in the United States, no one thought to engage the services of a black author in the ...
... abolitionists in the early years of the movement. When the American Convention of Abolition Societies met in 1800 to undertake a history of slavery in the United States, no one thought to engage the services of a black author in the ...
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... abolitionists intent on using Horton's case, as well as his poetic protests against slavery, as support for the antislavery movement. Growing resistance in the South to manumission in the wake of the Nat Turner revolt blocked Horton's ...
... abolitionists intent on using Horton's case, as well as his poetic protests against slavery, as support for the antislavery movement. Growing resistance in the South to manumission in the wake of the Nat Turner revolt blocked Horton's ...
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... [abolitionists] say about slavery,'' but ''facts and testimony as to the actual condition of the Slaves,'' Dwight asserted, ''would thrill the land with Horror.''10 Up to this time the autobiographies of former slaves had been more ...
... [abolitionists] say about slavery,'' but ''facts and testimony as to the actual condition of the Slaves,'' Dwight asserted, ''would thrill the land with Horror.''10 Up to this time the autobiographies of former slaves had been more ...
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... abolitionists for ameliorating the worst of these practices, Grandy makes a point of stating the continuing threat of proslavery mobs and of legal sanction for the seizure and sale of ''any coloured person who is said to be a slave'' in ...
... abolitionists for ameliorating the worst of these practices, Grandy makes a point of stating the continuing threat of proslavery mobs and of legal sanction for the seizure and sale of ''any coloured person who is said to be a slave'' in ...
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... Abolitionists(NewYork:Oxford University Press, 1969); and Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). 3. For race prejudice among early white ...
... Abolitionists(NewYork:Oxford University Press, 1969); and Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). 3. For race prejudice among early white ...
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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