Authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope — from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account of a lone woman's tribulations and courage, to Annie Bu

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that er

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and he

This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the A