Uncle Tom's Cabin | Related Titles
For more information about the life of slaves in their own words, look for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. In his autobiography, first published in 1845, Douglass tells of his life as a slave in the American South, the cruelty of Christian slaveholders, and how, after learning to read, he finally was able to escape to freedom. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, is the first slave narrative written by an African-American woman. Jacobs tells of the particular problems experienced by...
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