\n\t25 Black authors and scholars writing on American slavery, including true slave narratives and oral histories as well as fictional accounts that debunk the myths of the middle passage and shed light on the horrors of chattel slavery in the United States. \n<\/p>\n
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\n\tOral Histories<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAnnette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tZora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tWork Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tNorman R. Yetman (Editor), When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\tAutobiographies<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tFrederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and My Bondage and My Freedom<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOlaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tHarriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tSolomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tMary Prince, The History of Mary Prince<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tWilliam Still, The Underground Railroad<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tBooker T. Washington, Up From Slavery<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\tBiographies and other Non-Fiction<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tDaina Ramey Berry, The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation<\/em> \n<\/p>\n \n\tMary Frances Berry, My Face Is Black Is True<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAndrew Billingsley, Yearning to Breathe Free<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tStephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tJulius Lester, Day of Tears<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tCraig Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\tFiction<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n\tWilliam Wells Brown, Clotel: or, The President's Daughter<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tOctavia E. Butler, Kindred<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tMaryse Conde, Segu and Children of Segu<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tYaa Gyasi, Homegoing<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tAlex Haley, Roots: The Saga of An American Family<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tVirginia Hamilton, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tLawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tToni Morrison, Beloved<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tMargaret Walker, Jubilee<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\tColson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 25 Black authors and scholars writing on American slavery, including true slave narratives and oral histories as well as fictional accounts that debunk the myths of the middle passage and shed light on the horrors of chattel slavery in the United States. Oral Histories Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}