TY - BOOK AU - Gates,Henry Louis TI - The classic slave narratives SN - 0451528247 : AV - E 444 .C63 2002 PY - 2002///] CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Signet Classics KW - Equiano, Olaudah, KW - Prince, Mary. KW - Douglass, Frederick, KW - Jacobs, Harriet A. KW - Slave narratives KW - United States KW - Enslaved persons KW - Biography KW - African Americans KW - Enslaved persons' writings, American KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - To 1863 KW - Race relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [669]-672); The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African --; The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave --; Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave --; Incidents in the life of a slave girl; [Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent] N2 - Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves ahd written what caalled slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other ear, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude ER -