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Slave narrative

The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly black Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other examples exist. Over six thousand such narratives are estimated to exist; about 150 narratives were published as separate books or pamphlets. In the United States…

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As a literary genre

North American slave narratives

North African slave narratives

Women's slave narratives

Other slave narratives

Contemporary slave narratives

Neo-slave narratives

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Slave narrative

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related to External links · 25
Slave narrative → African-Americans, American Memory, American South, American Studies, An Online Anthology, Beginnings, Born, Congress, Documenting, Federal Writers' Project, Florida Slave Narratives, Library, Narratives, North American Slave Narratives, North Carolina, Oral, Project Gutenberg, Slave Narratives, Slavery, South Florida Libraries
related to North African slave narratives · 18
Slave narrative → African-American, American, American Revolution, Barbary, British, Caribbean, Christians, English, Female, Gothic, In, Muslim, Narratives, North Africa, North African, North American, Since, These
related to North American slave narratives · 16
Slave narrative → African, African-American, Caribbean, During, England, Eventually, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, Lucy Delaney, Missouri, North America, Slave, They, To, United States
related to As a literary genre · 15
Slave narrative → After, American Civil War, Douglass's, Frederick Douglass, Hopkins, In, Not, The, These, They, This, Treatment, Underground Railroad, United States, Whereas
related to Nonfiction · 15
Slave narrative → America, Captivity, Damien Lewis, Edward Tivnan, Escape, Francis Bok, Freedom, Mende Nazer, Modern, My Journey, My Ten Years, Slave, Slavery, Sudan, The True Story
related to Fictional · 9
Slave narrative → Colson Whitehead, Cora, Federal Writers' Project, Georgia, It, The, The Underground Railroad, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Underground Railroad
related to Neo-slave narratives · 6
Slave narrative → Canada, Examples, Flight, Ishmael Reed, New World, The
related to Tales of religious redemption · 6
Slave narrative → Africa, Africans, Christian, Examples, From, The
related to North American slave narratives as travel literature · 5
Slave narrative → American, As John Cox, Slave, Traveling South, Where
related to Other · 3
Slave narrative → Born, HBO, Unchained Memories

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