Great Slave Narratives (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: n/a
- First Published: 1969
- Genres: Nonfiction, Slave narrative
- Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, Africa or Africans, Blacks, Escapes, Slavery or slaves
The Work
Great Slave Narratives, Arna Bontemps’ 1960’s revival of a once-popular American literary genre, is a compilation of three book-length narratives written by former slaves. During much of the nineteenth century, slave narratives were best-sellers for American publishers. The reintroduction of this literary form was inspired by the Black Power movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s and the resurgent interest in black culture and the African American experience. Readers were again curious about how it felt to be black and a slave; they wanted to know how the...
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