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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Biography Autobiographies Biographies History Memoirs (form) |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Gerard Barthelemy; Nancy Prince; Louisa Picquet; Bethany Veney; Susie King Taylor; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. |
ISBN: | 0195052609 9780195052602 0195066693 9780195066692 0195052676 9780195052671 |
OCLC Number: | 16527114 |
Description: | 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 17 cm |
Contents: | A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1853; originally published in 1850) / Nancy Prince -- Louisa Picquet, the octoroon: A tale of Southern Slave Life (1861) / Rev. H. Mattison, A.M. -- The narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman (1889) -- Reminiscences of my life in camp: With the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902) / Susie King Taylor. |
Series Title: | Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers. |
Responsibility: | with an introduction by Anthony G. Barthelemy. |
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Praise for the series:"What an astonishing gift...this collection is!"--Alice Walker"The collaboration among The Schomburg Center, Oxford University Press, and these exceptional scholars is an extraordinary event...but the collection is a spectacular achievement."--Toni Morrison"[With] The Schomburg Library, I feel as if I were watching a gigantic ebony figure being unearthed. It is a woman writing."--The Washington Post Book World"An important volume, rich in the ways it illustrates for both the student and the scholar how power, resistance, and creativity permeate African American expression."--Russ Castronovo, University of MiamiPraise for the series:"What an astonishing gift...this collection is!"--Alice Walker"The collaboration among The Schomburg Center, Oxford University Press, and these exceptional scholars is an extraordinary event...but the collection is a spectacular achievement."--Toni Morrison"[With] The Schomburg Library, I feel as if I were watching a gigantic ebony figure being unearthed. It is a woman writing."--The Washington Post Book World"An important volume, rich in the ways it illustrates for both the student and the scholar how power, resistance, and creativity permeate African American expression."--Russ Castronovo, University of Miami Read more...


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- African American women -- Biography.
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- Slave narratives.
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