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Frederick Douglass reveals the missing piece of his autobiography, in a tale that could not have been told without endangering others while slavery continued to exist. He writes, "In the ... narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape.".

Antislavery movements --- Enslaved persons' writings, American.

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Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.

Enslaved persons' writings, American. --- Northup, Solomon,

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After hiding in her grandmother's attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude-and her master's sexual abuse-when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as an enslaved person. She published the narrative in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and the book was written as a novel with fictionalized characters to protect Jacobs from retribution by her former owners. (Dr. Flint, i.e., the real Dr. James Norcom, is Linda Brent's master in the novel.) The story emphasized certain negative aspects of slavery--especially the struggles of female slaves under sexually abusive masters, cruel mistresses, and the sale of their children--in order to play on the sympathies of white middle-class women in the North.

Slaves' writings, American. --- Enslaved persons --- Women slaves --- Jacobs, Harriet A. --- Enslaved persons' writings, American. --- Enslaved women

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Experience of a Slave in South Carolina

Enslaved persons --- Slavery --- Slave narratives --- Enslaved persons' writings, American --- History --- Jackson, John Andrew. --- Slaves --- Slaves' writings, American

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In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators.

Women slaves --- Femmes esclaves --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Biographie --- Histoire et critique --- Enslaved persons' writings, American --- Enslaved women --- Southern States --- -Southern States