Slave Narratives: Home

This research guide will connect you to reference works, print books and ebooks, databases for articles, and other information sources on the genre of the African-American slave narrative and some of the genre's most important writers.

Undated photograph of Frederick Douglass

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"Autobiography: Slave Narratives," from the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

"Slave Narratives," from American History Through Literature: 1820-1870

"Slave Narratives," from Black Women in America (2nd Edition)

"Slave Narratives," from the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History

"Slave Narratives," from the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass

"Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives," from the Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present

"Slave Narratives," from the Encyclopedia of African American Society

"Slave Narratives," from the Encyclopedia of the Great Depression

"Slave Narratives," from the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

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