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North Carolina Slave Narratives

The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones

North Carolina Slave Narratives( )
Editor: Andrews, William L.
Series title:The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
ISBN:978-0-8078-2821-2
Publication Date:Nov 2003
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $67.99
Book Description:

The autobiographies of former slaves energized the abolitionist movement -- and also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson. The four texts gathered here are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. Separate introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information.

Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.545 x 23.495 cm
Book Weight:0.085 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
William L. Andrews was born in 1946. He earned his B.A. from Davidson College in 1968. He received his M.A. in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1973, respectively, from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he is currently the E. Maynard Adams Professor of English. His first book, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, published in 1980, deals with a seminal figure in the development of African American and Southern American prose fiction. While researching To Tell a Free Story, a history of African American autobiography up to 1865, Andrews became greatly interested in autobiography studies.

Since 1988 he has been the general editor of a book series, titled Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography, which is published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Since the mid-1980's he has done a considerable amount of editing of African American and southern literature and criticism. The fruition of this work has been The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, published in 1997, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, also published in 1997, and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, three big collaborative projects that Andrews has co-edited. He went on to be the series editor of North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920, a complete digitized library of autobiographies and biographies of North American slaves and ex-slaves, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ameritech, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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