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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809637703321

Titolo

Speaking lives, authoring texts : three African American women's oral slave narratives / / edited by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-2966-5

1-4416-3889-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Fulton MinorDoVeanna S

JacksonMattie J

LarisonCornelius Wilson <1837-1910.>

PicquetLouisa <b. 1828?>

PittsReginald H

Disciplina

306.3/62092

Soggetti

Slavery - United States - History - 19th century

Women slaves - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts -- Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: African American Women's Voices Raised for Freedom -- Chronology of Louisa Picquet -- Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life. -- Chronology of Mattie J. Jackson -- The Story of Mattie J. Jackson -- Her Parentage-Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery-Incidents During the War-Her Escape from Slavery. -- Chronology of Sylvia Dubois 1768(?) - 1888 -- Sylvia Dubois (Now 116 Years Old), A Biography of the Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom -- Silvia Dubois (Now 116 Yers Old), A Biografy of The Slav Who Whipt Her Mistress and Gand Her Fredom (1883) (Facsimile).

Sommario/riassunto

Critical edition of three women's oral slave narratives.