Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

by Archer Jermaine and Jermaine Archer

Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist movement-Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs-revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415990270
• ISBN13: 9780415990271
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"