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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... autobiographical narratives of fugitive slaves. Before the closeoftheeighteenthcentury,thelifestoriesofAfrican-bornslaves,suchas James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano, began to appear in England. In addition to substantial ...
... autobiographical narratives of fugitive slaves. Before the closeoftheeighteenthcentury,thelifestoriesofAfrican-bornslaves,suchas James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano, began to appear in England. In addition to substantial ...
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... autobiographies of former slaves had been more concerned with the slavery of sin than with the sin of slavery. But as the antislavery press expanded in the late 1830s and antislavery leaders took on the mantle of crusaders rather than ...
... autobiographies of former slaves had been more concerned with the slavery of sin than with the sin of slavery. But as the antislavery press expanded in the late 1830s and antislavery leaders took on the mantle of crusaders rather than ...
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... autobiography did not bestow on Roper the fame in the United States that the narratives of Douglass, Brown, Bibb, and Pennington gave these men a decade later, the publication of Roper'sNarrativeinLondonin1837wasbyno means a small-gauge ...
... autobiography did not bestow on Roper the fame in the United States that the narratives of Douglass, Brown, Bibb, and Pennington gave these men a decade later, the publication of Roper'sNarrativeinLondonin1837wasbyno means a small-gauge ...
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... . Part of what makes Grandy, as well as Lane, intriguing is the question that is often asked of Washington as well: how much of what we see in these men's autobiographies is a mask—the image they General Introduction { 11.
... . Part of what makes Grandy, as well as Lane, intriguing is the question that is often asked of Washington as well: how much of what we see in these men's autobiographies is a mask—the image they General Introduction { 11.
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... autobiography, Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave, indicates how important image-making was to the publishers of Jones's autobiography when it first appeared in Boston and New York in ...
... autobiography, Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave, indicates how important image-making was to the publishers of Jones's autobiography when it first appeared in Boston and New York in ...
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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