The Classic Slave Narratives

Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher: mentor book
Year: 1986

The Classic Slave Narratives
Summary

Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves ahd written what caalled slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other ear, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. Source: Publisher