Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers)

Written by six black women, these stories embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ^IThe History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave^R (1831), the first female slave narrative from the Americas, recounts one woman's suffering and courage in the pursuit of freedom. ^IThe Story of Mattie J. Jackson^R (1866) not only tells of a quest for personal freedom, but also concludes wit