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  • The History of Mary Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Mary Prince, Barbara Baumgartner ...
    Mary Prince was the first black woman to publish an account of her life in Britain-an account so brutal that few believed it. The History of Mary Prince (1831) describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in the Caribbean Islands, and her eventual arrival in London with her sadistic owner Mr. Wood. Prince escaped in 1828 and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society. Brief, forthright, and ... Read more

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  • The True Story of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

    by Mary Prince ...
    "The History of Mary Prince", a life narrative written by Mary Prince, is the first account published in Great Britain of a black woman's life; at a time when anti-slavery agitation was growing, her first-person account touched many people. As a personal account, the book contributed to the debate in a manner different from reasoned analysis or statistical arguments. Its tone was direct and ... Read more

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  • The History of Mary Prince

    A West Indian Slave

    by Mary Prince ...
    The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.' Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    In 1845, runaway slave Frederick Douglass became, almost overnight, the most celebrated African American author in history with the publication of his Narrative. In stark, powerful prose, he conveyed his observations of owners and overseers, the demoralizing effects of slavery on both slave and slaveholder, and his own triumph over oppression. In the latter part of the century, Douglass became a ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself

    A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis

    by Angela Y. Davis, Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    This new edition, featuring essays by Angela Davis that focus on the importance political resistance and freedom struggle, will introduce Frederick Douglass’s Narrative to the Obama generation. Already a cornerstone of every African American studies syllabus, the new edition has the potential to become the edition adopted by progressive-leaning professors and department heads. Newly relevant given ... Read more

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  • Clotel

    or, The President's Daughter

    by William Wells Brown ...
    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Our Nig

    or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    by Harriet E. Wilson ...
    With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.New Afterword by Barbara WhiteA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white ... Read more

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  • Once Upon a Pedestal

    by Emily Hahn ...
    A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having an illegitimate child. Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that characterized the Victorian ... Read more

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  • Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860

    A Study in Social Values

    by David Brion Davis ...
    Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of ... Read more

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  • A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident of USA

    Enriched edition. A Journey from Africa to Freedom: A Gripping Slave Narrative

    by Venture Smith, Aiden Eastwood ...
    In "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident of USA," Venture Smith offers a captivating autobiographical account that intricately weaves together themes of displacement, resilience, and the quest for identity. Written in a straightforward style characteristic of the era's early narratives, Smith's work not only recounts his harrowing journey from African ... Read more

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  • The Writings of Thomas Smallwood

    by Thomas Smallwood, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A long-forgotten Black abolitionist who liberated captive workers by the wagonload, brilliantly satirized slaveholders, and gave the underground railroad its name.A Penguin Classic**Thomas Smallwood was a shoemaker by day and an organizer of mass escapes from slavery by night. Twelve years after purchasing his freedom, Smallwood took to the press and, over a sixteen-month stretch starting in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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