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). |