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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... wanted—a hard-hitting tour of slavery as a visitation of hell on earth, conducted by someone who had seen and suffered it all but who had survived to tell his story in a manner likely to evoke both credence and sympathy. The British ...
... wanted—a hard-hitting tour of slavery as a visitation of hell on earth, conducted by someone who had seen and suffered it all but who had survived to tell his story in a manner likely to evoke both credence and sympathy. The British ...
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... wanted their white readers to have of upwardly mobile black men—and how much is real? A glance at the title of the first edition of Thomas H. Jones's autobiography, Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty ...
... wanted their white readers to have of upwardly mobile black men—and how much is real? A glance at the title of the first edition of Thomas H. Jones's autobiography, Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty ...
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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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