Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives
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Title
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Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives
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This edition
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"Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives". Ed. William Loren Katz. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1996. xxxii+434 pp.
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Other editions, reprints, and translations
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● Repr. n.p.: Africa Tree Press, 2017.
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Table of contents
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● William Loren Katz / Introduction: Southern Views of the "Peculiar Institution"
● Lunsford Lane / Narrative of Lunsford Lane, formerly of Raleigh, NC
● James W. C. Pennington / The Fugitive Blacksmith, or Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington
● William W. Brown / Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
● Jacob Stroyer / My Life in the South
● Moses Grandy / The Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America
● Linda Brent / Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Publisher's description
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"During the early 19th century some African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system. Perceptive, dramatic and often starkly horrifying, these narratives dared to challenge their author's former owners who sang the praises of human bondage. Having examined the slave narratives, recent scholars have judged them historically accurate and reliable, and the most significant form of early African American literature. The six narratives in this volume are: Linda Brent, who was held in sexual bondage until she fled to freedom and wrote her story; William Wells Brown, a runaway who became the first African American novelist and playwright; James Pennington who escaped to become a minister and civil rights activist in Brooklyn; Lunsford Lane, an inventor/entrepreneur who purchased his family's freedom; Jacob Stroyer, who was liberated during the war and became a minister in Salem, Massachusetts; and Moses Grandy, who escaped to England and wrote his book."
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See also
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Biographical accounts of the editor (who died in 2019) are available at:
● "William Loren Katz: A People's Historian." "Zinn Educational Project"
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Zinn Educational Project
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● Roberts, Sam. "William Loren Katz, Historian of African-Americans, Dies at 92." "New York Times" 21 Nov. 2019.
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New York Times
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Item Number
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A0634
