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African Americans --- Slaves --- Slaves' writings, American.

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Ce livre raconte l’histoire de Solomon Northup, un menuisier et violoniste noir du Nord. Homme libre, il est enlevé une nuit alors qu’il voyage loin de chez lui pour être vendu comme esclave. Pendant douze ans, il vit « l’institution particulière » de près : travail forcé de l’aube jusqu’au crépuscule et des coups de fouet sans cesse. Quand il retrouve enfin son statut d’homme libre, il s’attèle à décrire minutieusement ce qu’il a vécu et ce livre en est le résultat. Malgré son calvaire, il réussit à décrire l’économie du Sud avec un œil de sociologue, une économie agraire qui comble son manque de productivité et son retard en matière d’industrialisation avec cette main d’œuvre particulièrement peu coûteuse que sont les esclaves. Ce récit, qui choque par sa cruauté, est également à la base du film de Steve McQueen (2014).

Slaves --- Slaves' writings, American --- African Americans --- Plantation life --- Slavery

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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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CRAFT (WILLIAM) --- CRAFT (ELLEN) --- FUGITIVE SLAVES --- SLAVES' WRITINGS, AMERICAN --- U.S. --- BIOGRAPHY

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American literature --- American literature --- Slaves' writings, American --- Women and literature --- African American women --- African American women in literature.