The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives / edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Civitas/Counterpoint, c1999.

ISBN: 1582430195 (alk. paper)

Description: xi, 642 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Slaves United States Biography.
African Americans Biography.
Slaves' writings, American.

Contents: The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself, to which is added, the narrative of Asa-Asa, a captured African (1831) -- The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray (1831) -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself (1845) -- Narrative of William W. Brown, an American slave, written by himself (1849) -- Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself (1849) -- Running a thousand miles for freedom, or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery (1860) -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself, Harriet A. Jacobs (1861).