Slave Narratives Mega Collection: 18 of the Most Moving & Telling Memoirs: Twelve Years a Slave, Up From Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), and more

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This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave , Up from Slavery , Life and Times of Frederick Douglass , The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano , Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave , The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains) , The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones , Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave , From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery , Thirty Years a Slave , Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House , The Life of Josiah Henson , The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina" After Forty Years of Slavery , Memoir of Pierre Toussaint , The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher , Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave , and The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman . The slave narrative is a literary genre involving the autobiographical accounts of enslaved Africans. A slave narrative gives an account of the life, or a portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave. It could be written or orally related by the slave personally. More than 6,000 such narratives are estimated to exist; the overwhelming majority of American slave narratives were authored by African Americans.