Slave biography
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Slave narrative
Literary genre involving autobiographical accounts of enslaved Africans in the Americas
The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist. Over six thousand such narratives are estimated to exist;[1] about narratives were published as separate books or pamphlets. In the United States during the Great Depression (s), more than 2, additional oral histories on life during slavery were collected by writers sponsored and published by the Works Progress Administration,[2] a New Deal program. Most of the 26 audio-recorded interviews are held by the Library of Congress.[3]
Some of the earliest memoirs of captivity known in the English-speaking world were written by white Europeans and later Americans, captured and sometimes enslaved in North Africa by local Muslims, usually Barbary pirates. These were part of a broad category of "captivity narratives". Beginning in the 17th century, these included accounts by colonists and later American settlers in North America and the United States who were captured and held by Native Americans. Several well-known captivity narratives were published
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Jeffrey.Declaration and Confession of Jeffrey, a Negro, Who Was Executed at Worcester, Oct. 17, , for the Murder of Mrs. Tabitha Sandford, at Mendon, the 12th of September Preceding. Boston: , [No copy of this text can be located].
Total autobiographies, 1
Hammon, Briton.A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man,Servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England; Who Returned to Boston, after Having Been Absent almost Thirteen Years. Containing an Account of the Many Hardships He Underwent from the Time He Left His Master's House, in the Year , to the Time of His Return to BostonHow He was Cast Away in the Capes of Florida;The Horrid Cruelty and Inhuman Barbarity of the Indians in Murdering the Whole Ship's Crew;The Manner of His Being Carry'd by Them Into Captivity. Also, an Account of His Being Confined Four Years and Seven Months in a Close Dungeon,and the Remarkable Manner in which He Met with His Good Old Master in London; Who Returned to New-England, a Passenger in the Same Ship. Boston: Green and Russell,
Fortune.The Dying Confession and Declaration of Fortune, a Negro Man. Boston: Fowle and Draper, ["No copy of this tract can now be located.
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