Classic Slave Narratives

<b>A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives including <i>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</i> <i>The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave</i> <i>Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl</i> and <i>The Life of Olaudah Equiano</i>.</b> <p/>Before the end of the Civil War more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape joined by a similar number after the war. No group of slaves anywhere in any other era has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. <p/>Henry Louis Gates Jr. one of America's top experts in African American studies presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery. <p/>Fascinating and powerful this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent) Mary Price and Olaudah Equiano (alias Gustavus Vassa). These amazing stories are not only first-person histories of the highest caliber they are also a unique literary form that has given birth to the spirit vitality and vision of America's modern black writers. <p/>Updated with the ninth edition of <i>The Life of Olaudah Equiano</i> the last edition he revised and published in his lifetime. <p/><b>With a Revised and Updated Introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr.</b>