Five Slave Narratives (The American Negro: His History and Literature)

xxvi, 54, xv, 87, 110, 100, 43 pp. This collection of authenticated narratives, written in the nineteenth century by escaped slaves, offers an in-depth look at the South's "peculiar institution." Includes The Narrative of Lunsford Land; The Fugitive Blacksmith, by James W.C. Pennington; Narrative of William W. Brown; My Life in the South, by Jacob Stroyer; Narrative of the Life of Moses Gandy.