Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bearing Witness: The Fugitive Slave Narrative and Its Traditions -- Stylistic Developments -- The Erasure of Origins -- Political Entrenchment and Increasing Ideological Discord -- Abolitionist Expansion and its Appropriation of the Ex-Slave's Voice -- Religion -- "What if I am a Woman?": Women, Religion, and the Antislavery Movement -- The Sameness of the Narratives -- The Reconstructive Voice -- The Literary Legacy of the Narratives -- Notes -- Chapter 1. Nat Turner (1800-1831) -- The Confessions of Nat Turner