Slave Narratives (Criticism and Interpretation)

Andrews, William L.. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986

Braxton, Joanne M. Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989

Bromell, Nicholas Knowles. By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Costanzo, Angelo. Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black autobiography. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 104. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987

Dean, Ann C. (Ann Coulson). "There was a Scene which Angels Witnessed": The Active Function of Narrative Convention in Antebellum Slave Narratives. Thesis (A.B., Honors)--Harvard University, 1989

Foster, Frances Smith. Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives. Wisconsin studies in American autobiography. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994

Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce). Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and Artist. Expanded ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989

Hill, Shannon Elizabeth. "Free at Last": The Use of the Slave Narrative in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Thesis (A.B., Honors in History and Literature)--Harvard University, 1991

Hopkins, Dwight N. Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology in the Slave Narratives. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1991

Judy, Ronald A. T. (Dis)forming the American canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993

Morgan, Kathryn L. The Ex-Slave Narrative as a Source for Folk History. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1970

Richmond, M. A. (Merle A.). Bid the Vassal Soar; Interpretive Essays on the Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) and George Moses Horton (ca. 1797-1883). Washington, Howard University Press, 1974

Russell, Sandi. Render Me my Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990

Sekora, John, ed., The Art of Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory. An Essays in literature book. [Macomb, Ill.]: Western Illinois University, 1982

Sanders, Cheryl Jeanne. Slavery and Conversion: An Analysis of Ex-Slave Testimony. Thesis (Th.D.)--Harvard University, 1985

Smith, Valerie. Self-discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987

Starling, Marion Wilson. The Slave Narrative: Its Place in American History. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1988

Williams, Melanie. Tracing Roots: The Development of the Slave Narrative Tradition in the Works of Three Afro-American Writers. Thesis (A.B., Honors in English and American Literature and Language)--Harvard University, 1991

Winter, Kari J. Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992

Primary Sources

W.P.A. Interviews

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York: New Press, 1998

Rawick, George P. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography: supplement, series 1. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies; no. 35. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1977

Rawick, George P. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography: supplement, series 2. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies; no. 49. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979

Index to The American Slave. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 65. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981

Bibliography

Brignano, Russell C. (Russell Carl). Black Americans in Autobiography: An Annotated Bibliography of Autobiographies and Autobiographical Books Written since the Civil War. Rev. and expanded ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1984

Anthologies and Recent Editions of Slave Narratives

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers). The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other Slaves. The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Andrews, William L., ed., Six Women's Slave Narratives. Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Appiah, Anthony, ed., Early African-American Classics. New York: Bantam Books, 1990

Austin, Allan D., ed., African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook. Critical studies on Black life and culture; v. 5. New York: Garland Pub., 1984

Austin, Allan D. African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Blackett, R.J.M. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998

Blassingame, John. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977

Bontemps, Arna, ed., Five Black Lives; The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G. W. Offley, [and] James L. Smith. Documents of Black Connecticut. [1st ed.]. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1971]

Bruce, Henry Clay. The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996

Coleman, Deirdre. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s. Washington: Leicester University Press, 1998

Cottroll, Robert J. From African to Yankee: Narrativs of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998

Davis, Charles T., ed., The Slave's Narrative. Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985

Fisk University. Social Science Institute. Unwritten history of Slavery; Autobiographical Accounts of Negro Ex-Slaves. Washington, Microcard Editions, 1968

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: New American Library, 1987

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and William L. Andrews. Pioneers of the black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment. Washington: Civitas, 1998

Hurmence, Belinda, We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J.F. Blair, 1994

Jones, Thomas H. The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a Slave for Forty-three Years. New York: AMS Press, [1975]

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann). Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1973]

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987

Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Larison, Cornelius Wilson. Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Lester, Julius. To be a Slave. New York, Dial Press [1968]

McCline, John. Slavery in the Clover Bottoms: John McCline's Narrative of His Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1998

James Mellon, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988

Mintz, Steven, ed., African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery. 2nd ed. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1999

Nichols, Charles Harold. Many Thousand Gone; The Ex-Slaves' Account of their Bondage and Freedom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press [1969]

Nichols, Charles Harold, comp. Black Men in Chains; Narratives by Escaped Slaves. New York, L. Hill [1972]

Osofsky, Gilbert, comp. Puttin' on Ole Massa; The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. New York, Harper & Row [1969]

Pennington, James W. C. The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington. 3d ed. Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1971]

Charles L. Perdue, Jr., ed., Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976

Smith, James Lindsay. Autobiography of James L. Smith: including also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. Norwich: Society of the Founders of Norwich, Connecticut, 1976

Teamoh, George. God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh. Macon, Ga.: Mercer, 1990

Williams, Isaac D.. Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences. New York: AMS Press, 1975

Yetman, Norman R., comp. Life under the "Peculiar Institution"; Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection, Library of Congress. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1970]

Yetman, Norman R., comp. Voices from Slavery. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1970]

Slavery and Literature

Aravamundan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999

Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann. Black Women Writers and the America Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered. Westport: Greenwood, 1999

Bracks, Lean'tin L. Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History, Language, and Identity. New York: Garland, 1998.

Bromell, Nicholas Knowles. By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Burnham, Michelle. Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.

Clarke, John Henrik, ed., William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987, c1968.

Cassuto, Leonard. The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Davis, Mary Kemp. Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates, and Carl Petersen. Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Ellis, Markman. The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Ferguson, Moira. Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Fishburn, Katherine. The Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative. Westport: Greenwood, 1997.

Gardner, Jared. Master Plots: Race and the Founding of American Literature, 1787-1845. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Presss, 1998.

Gates, Henry Louis. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Jackson, Edward Mercia. American Slavery and the American Novel, 1852-1977. Bristol, Ind., U.S.A.: Wyndham Hall Press, 1987.

Jones, John Maxwell. Slavery and Race in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana-French Literature. [1st ed.]. [Camden, N.J.]: Jones, 1978.

Kammer, Martin. Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leave of Grass. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

Karcher, Carolyn L. Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Kinney, James. Amalgamation!: Race, Sex, and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 90. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Kirkham, Edwin Bruce. The Building of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977.

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Kawash, Samira. Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Lee, A. Robert. Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America. London: Pluto Press, 1998.

Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Luis, William. Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative. The Texas Pan American series. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

McDowell, Deborah E. Slavery and the Literary Imagination. Selected papers from the English Institute, 1987; new ser., no. 13. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Mills, Bruce. Cultural Reformations: Lydia Maria Child and the Literature of Reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Ogude, S. E. Genius in Bondage: A Study of the Origins of African Literature in English. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press, 1983.

Plasa, Carl, The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.

Rusdy, Ashraf H.A. Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Sale, Maggie Montesinos. The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Samuels, Shirley, The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Sherman, Joan R. The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Smith, Valerie. Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Solomon, Barbara H. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved. New York: G.K. Hall, 1998.

Thomas, Deborah A. Thackeray and Slavery. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993.

Van Deburg, William L. Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Vaughan, Alden T. Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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