This week's threads highlighted some of the slave narratives that were physically written by the ex-slave or spoken and written down. These are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many. William Green was a slave in the nineteenth century. He wrote a narrative of his life as a slave, and his subsequent escape from his master. His narrative was published in 1853. There … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Authors of Slave narratives
Friday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Lewis Clarke was an ex-slave who published his experiences in his work, Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke. Lewis Garrard Clarke was born in Madison County, Kentucky, seven miles from Richmond, in 1812. Depending on the source, Clarke's birth year is listed as 1812 or 1815. He is best known for his slave narrative, Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Thursday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Lucinda Davis (near 1848-after 1937) was a slave who grew up in the Creek Indian culture. She spoke the Muskogee Creek language fluently. The main information source was from an interview in the summer of 1937, at which time she was guessed to be 89 years old. Lucinda's parents were owned by two different Creek Indians. Being enslaved so young without her parents, she never … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Wednesday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Fountain Hughes (1848 — 1957) was born a slave in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States and freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. He worked as a laborer for most of his life, moving in 1881 from Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland. He was interviewed in June 1949 about his life by the Library of Congress as part of the Federal Writers' Project of former slaves' oral … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Tuesday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives
Thanks for the birthday sentiments fellow POU'ers. Now onward to the open thread... Mattie Jane Jackson (January 1847 – February 5, 1910) was an African American author. She is known for her 1866 autobiography, The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage, Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery, Incidents During the War, Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, which … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Authors of Slave Narratives