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.<\/p>\n
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Oral Histories<\/strong><\/p>\n Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello<\/em><\/p>\n Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last \u201cBlack Cargo\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves<\/em><\/p>\n Norman R. Yetman (Editor), When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Autobiographies<\/strong><\/p>\n Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and My Bondage and My Freedom<\/em><\/p>\n Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano<\/em><\/p>\n Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/em><\/p>\n Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave<\/em><\/p>\n Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince<\/em><\/p>\n William Still, The Underground Railroad<\/em><\/p>\n Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Biographies and other Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Daina 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><\/p>\n Mary Frances Berry, My Face Is Black Is True<\/em><\/p>\n Andrew Billingsley, Yearning to Breathe Free<\/em><\/p>\n Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South<\/em><\/p>\n Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household<\/em><\/p>\n Julius Lester, Day of Tears<\/em><\/p>\n Craig Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America\u2019s Universities<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n William Wells Brown, Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter<\/em><\/p>\n Octavia E. Butler, Kindred<\/em><\/p>\n Maryse Conde, Segu and Children of Segu<\/em><\/p>\n Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing<\/em><\/p>\n Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of An American Family<\/em><\/p>\n Virginia Hamilton, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave<\/em><\/p>\n Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes<\/em><\/p>\n Toni Morrison, Beloved<\/em><\/p>\n Margaret Walker, Jubilee<\/em><\/p>\n Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad<\/em><\/p>\n <\/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":3738,"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":[33],"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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3738"}],"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}]}}