Larger	Six Women's Slave Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers) Author: William L. Andrews
	Book Information Publisher: Oxford University Press Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780195060836 - ISBN-10: 0195060830 Publication Date: 12/14/1989 Pages: 384

Written by six black women, these stories embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ^IThe History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave^R (1831), the first female slave narrative from the Americas, recounts one woman's suffering and courage in the pursuit of freedom. ^IThe Story of Mattie J. Jackson^R (1866) not only tells of a quest for personal freedom, but also concludes wit