{"id":1422,"date":"2015-10-26T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2016-10-27T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:12:50","slug":"recommended-slave-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2015\/10\/26\/recommended-slave-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Slave Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two most famous published ex-slave narratives were produced by Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington. \u00a0Students can choose to write about Douglass&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglass\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Narrative<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1845) (or one of his two other subsequent autobiographies,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglass55\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\">My Bondage and My Freedom<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a01855 or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/dougl92\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Life and Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from 1892) or Washington&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/washington\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Up From Slavery<\/a> <\/em>(1901), but here are about two dozen more choices from among the\u00a0significant (and teachable) ex-slave narratives that have been published in American history, available full-text online from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/\" target=\"_blank\">North American Slave Narratives<\/a>,&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Documenting the American South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Ball, Charles.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/ball\/menu.html\">Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Asher &amp; Co., 1859. 430 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Bibb, Henry.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/bibb\/menu.html\">Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: Author, 1849. 207 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Brown, Henry Box.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/brownbox\/menu.html\">Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Manchester: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851. 69 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Brown, William Wells.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/brown47\/menu.html\">Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: The Anti-slavery office, 1847. xi, [13]-110 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann),\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bold\">edited by Lydia Maria Francis Child.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/jacobs\/menu.html\">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: Published for the Author, 1861, c1860. 306 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Craft, William.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/craft\/menu.html\">Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: William Tweedie, 1860. iv, 111 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Drew, Benjamin. \u00a0<em>[NOTE: \u00a0Account of many ex-slaves compiled by an abolitionist.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/drew\/menu.html\">A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: J. P. Jewett and Company, 1856. xii, 387, [4] p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Truth, Sojourner. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/truth50\/menu.html\">Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: The Author, 1850. xii, 13-144 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Grandy, Moses.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/grandy\/menu.html\">Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: Gilpin, 1843. 72 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Grimes, William.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/grimes55\/menu.html\">Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New Haven: Published by the Author, 1855. 93 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Henson, Josiah.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/henson49\/menu.html\">The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849. iv, 76 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Said, Omar ibn, b. 1770?\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bold\">edited by J. Franklin Jameson.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/nc\/omarsaid\/menu.html\">Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. Ed. John Franklin Jameson. From The American Historical Review, 30, No. 4. (July 1925), 787-795<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Washington, D. C.: American Historical Association, 1925. 787-795 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Jennings, Paul.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/jennings\/menu.html\">A Colored Man&#8217;s Reminiscences of James Madison<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Brooklyn: G.C. Beadle, 1865. 19 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Keckley, Elizabeth.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/keckley\/menu.html\">Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: G. W. Carleton &amp; Co., Publishers, 1868. 371 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Loguen, J. W. (Jermain Wesley).\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/loguen\/menu.html\">The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Syracuse, N. Y.: J. G. K. Truair &amp; Co., 1859. 445 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Parker, William.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/parker1\/menu.html\">The Freedman&#8217;s Story: In Two Parts<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>The Atlantic Monthly, vol. XVII, Feb. 1866, pp. 152-166; Mar. 1866, pp. 276-295., 26 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Pennington, James W. C.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/penning49\/menu.html\">The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. xv, [1], 1-87, [9] p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Prince, Mary.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/prince\/menu.html\">The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: Published by F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1831. 41 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Roper, Moses.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/roper\/menu.html\">A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Philadelphia: Merrihew &amp; Gunn, 1838. 89 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Smallwood, Thomas.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/smallwood\/menu.html\">A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood, (Coloured Man:) Giving an Account of His Birth&#8211;The Period He Was Held in Slavery&#8211;His Release&#8211;and Removal to Canada, etc. Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad. Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Toronto: Smallwood; James Stephens, 1851. xii, 13-63 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Taylor, Susie King.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/taylorsu\/menu.html\">Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S. C. Volunteers<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: The author, 1902. 92 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Ward, Samuel Ringgold.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/wards\/menu.html\">Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, &amp; England<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: John Snow, 35, Paternoster Row, 1855. 412 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Williams, James.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/williams\/menu.html\">Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: American Anti-Slavery Society; Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. 108 p.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two most famous published ex-slave narratives were produced by Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington. \u00a0Students can choose to write about Douglass&#8217;s Narrative\u00a0(1845) (or one of his two other subsequent autobiographies,\u00a0My Bondage and My Freedom\u00a0from\u00a01855 or Life and Times\u00a0from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2015\/10\/26\/recommended-slave-narratives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}