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abolition 2 antebellum literature 116 British 64 Anti-Slavery Bugle 18 discourse of 3, 35 antislavery movement 11, 12, 16 Garrisonian abolitionists 19 print culture of 16–17, 18 lecture circuit of 19 Antislavery Record 18 literature of 3, 70–73, 151 Anti-slavery Reporter 66 poetry 71 “as told to” accounts 233, 235 rise of movement 28 The Atlantic Monthly 158 slave women in relation to 232–33 Augustan ideals 66 white abolitionists 3 authenticity 73–76 An Account of the Life of Mr. David see also slave narrative George 15 autobiography 4, 13, 14, 16, 26, 46, 99–102, aesthetic (literary) value 6, 23, 196–97, 223 207 Africa 87–92 African Diaspora 170 Bakhtin, M. M. 141, 147, 148–49 African American writers (literature) 4, 5, Ball, Charles 25, 39, 70 112, 137–41, 147, 148–49, 150–51, 183 Fifty Years in Chains 24 African American women writers 198 Slavery in the United States 23–24 Allen, Richard 95 Banneker, Benjamin amanuensis 241 letter to Thomas Jefferson 14 Gronniosaw’s use of 63 Barthelemy, Anthony G. 222 Hammon’s and Marrant’s use of 86 Baxter, Richard Picquet’s use of 239–41 Call to the Unconverted 92 Prince’s use of 233 Baym, Nina 128 Stowe as 76 Woman’s Fiction 117 Truth’s use of 101, 235, 236 Belinda 13–14 William Craft as 238 Bell, Bernard W. 5 American Abolition Society 67 The Afro-American Novel and Its American and Foreign Antislavery Tradition 168–69 Reporter 18 Benezet, Anthony 17, 64, 65 American and Foreign Antislavery Society 18 Bercovitch, Sacvan 94 American Anti-Slavery Society 18, 23, 28, Berlin, Ira 46 203, 204, 208–09, 211 Bibb, Henry 18, 21, 40, 123, 146, 228 American Civil War 2, 24, 34, 140, 146, 150, Narrative of Henry Bibb 26, 108, 226 175, 190, 196, 219–20 on family 31–32 Anderson, Benedict 146 Black Arts Movement 169 Andrews, William L. 7, 87, 89, 101 Black Power Movement 169 Annis, John 65 Black Studies Movement 220

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Blackburn, Robin 64 “Dave’s Neckliss” 157–58 Bland, Sterling 71 The House Behind the Cedars 153 African American Slave Narratives 62 The Marrow of Tradition 153, 158 Blassingame, John 189–90, 195 Child, Lydia Maria 25, 76–77, 117, 189, 190 Blight, David 205, 220–21 as editor of Jacobs 191, 193, 195 Bok, Francis Hobomok 192 Escape from Slavery 183 preface to Incidents 111, 115 Bontemps, Arna 192 Romance of the Republic 116 Black Thunder 165, 170–72, 173 Christianity 2, 3–4, 11, 15, 19, 226 “Foreword” to Black Thunder 171 biblical evidence for slavery 18 Great Slave Narratives 171 Christian audiences/readers 49 Boston Anti-Slavery Society 107 Christian doctrine 92, 95, 152, 176 Bradley, David Christian identity 12 The Chaneysville Incident 169, 172, 173 Christian philosophy 18 Braxton, Joanne 110, 192 Christian salvation 63, 84, 86, 93, 96–97 A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Christian tropes of enslavement and Travels and Gospel Labors of George liberation 20 White 15 Christian values 73, 92 Brown, Henry “Box” 41, 146 conversion to 93 Christianity and 31 corruption of 228 Narrative of Henry “Box” Brown 24–25, King James Bible 51 107, 226 Methodism 45, 93, 95–96 Brown, Sterling 192 slavery and 30–31 Brown, William Wells 18, 19, 39, 42, 74, see also evangelicalism, Quakers 226 Civil Rights Movement 190, 197, 220 Clotel 5, 108, 117, 140, 141–43, 239 “Civis” 48, 51 Memoir 108 Clarke, Lewis 32, 120 Narrative of William Wells Brown 23, 24, Clarkson, Thomas 17, 55 73–74, 107–08, 226, 229 An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of Browning, Elizabeth Barrett the Human Species 17, 64 “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” 71 Cliff, Michelle 170 Bruce, Dickson D. 2 Free Enterprise 170 Bunyan, John Clifton, Lucille 170 Grace Abounding 63 Coker, Daniel The Pilgrim’s Progress 20, 21, 85, 100 A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an Butler, Octavia 170 African Minister 14 Kindred 169, 172 colonization movements 18 The Columbian Orator 205, 211 Cable, George Washington Conde, Maryse 170 Old Creole Days 156 Cooper, J. California Caldwell, Patricia 94 Family 169 canon (literary) 6, 147, 196, 229–30 Cowper, William 51 captivity narratives (Indian) 3–4, 13, 83–86 “The Negro’s Complaint” 71 Equiano in comparison to 48–49 Cox, James M. 102 Carby, Hazel 117–18, 140, 143, 144, 171 Craft, Ellen 6, 116 Carey, Matthew Craft, William and Ellen 19, 41, 146 The American Museum 13 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Carretta, Vincent 2–3 20, 107, 119–21, 124, 237–39 Cary, Lorene Crafts, Hannah The Price of a Child 170, 181–83 The Bondwoman’s Narrative 147–48 Cather, Willa 196 criminal conversion narrative 13 Chesnutt, Charles 5, 156 Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah 16, 54, 55–56, The Conjure Woman 157–58 64

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publishing strategies of 21 on freedom 40, 101, 130 reviews of 22 on Fuller 25 Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and on parentage 108, 123–24 Wicked Trafﬁc of the Slavery and on Patrick Henry 41 Commerce of the Human Species 17, on slave songs 124 48, 63 Peabody’s praise of 25 Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of sexuality in slavery 32 Slavery 17 “The Slavery Party” 213 Cummins, Maria speeches 6, 219, 225–26 The Lamplighter 128 “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” 213 Darling, Marsha 174–75 Du Bois, W. E. B. 5, 44, 58, 112, 150, 154, Dash, Julie 170 158–60 Davis, David Brion 11, 65 Black Reconstruction 165 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Dust of Dawn 159 151 “Of Alexander Crummell” 160 “The Declaration of Independence” 210, 225 “Passing of the First-Born” 160 Defoe, Daniel The Souls of Black Folk 158–60, 210 Robinson Crusoe 54 The Suppression of the African Delany, Martin Slave-Trade to the United States of Blake, or the Huts of America 140, 146 America 159 The Depression 170 “Talented Tenth” 152 Diallo, Ayuba Suleiman 28 duCille, Anne 117, 198 Dixon, Thomas The Clansman 157 Edwards, Jonathan “Documenting the American South” 7 Faithful Narrative of the Surpising Works Doddridge, Philip of God 92 On the Rise and Progress of Religion in Emancipation Act of 1833 62 the Soul 92 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 143, 205 Douglass, Frederick 3, 6, 7, 18, 19, 102, 129, Englishness 12 142, 228, 229 Eppler, Karen Sanchez´ 73, 117 abolition and 23, 36, 61 Equiano, Olaudah 2–3, 16, 18, 28, 143 “Appendix” to My Bondage 212–13 doubts about 46 “Appendix” to Narrative 67–69 ﬁnancial success of narrative 21 as orator 201–07 Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano attacks on authenticity of 34 7, 16, 17, 21, 64–66, 92, 138–39 Aunt Hester’s (Esther’s) whipping 39, 108, on slavery and the slave trade 50 223, 237 publishing history of narrative 21 Christianity and 30, 210 reviews of 22 cited by Stowe 75 Ernest, John 6, 7 Covey on 41, 68–69 evangelicalism 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20–21 death of 154 reading market 21 editions of Narrative 24 Eyerman, Ron 151 frontispiece to My Bondage 210 frontispiece to Narrative 205 Fabi, Giulia 161 Garrison and 69; see also Garrison family 2, 31–32 “The Heroic Slave” 69 feminist The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass allegories 170 192 criticism 6, 192, 193–94 My Bondage and My Freedom 6, 20, 24, Fern, Fanny 30, 105–07, 192, 208, 210–14 Ruth Hall 119 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Forten, James 17 6, 7, 104–05, 154, 192, 213–14, 218–22 Letters from a Man of Color 14

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Foster, Frances Smith 89, 139, 221–22 Harper, Frances 5 Franklin, Benjamin 25, 143 Iola Leroy 151–54, 161 Autobiography 4, 100, 101 July 1867 speech 151 Frederick Douglass’ Paper 116, 209 Harris, Joel Chandler Free Soil Movement 18 Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings 157 Freedom’s Journal 139 Harris, Raymond The French Revolution 171 Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of Fuller, Margaret 25 the Slave Trade 63 Fugitive Slave Law 41, 75, 120, 129, 181, Harris, Trudier 229 239 Hart, Albert Bushnell 227 Hartman, Saidiya V. 225, 226 Gandhi, Mahatma 171 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 197 Garner, Margaret 174 Heath Anthology of American Garrison, William Lloyd 18, 20, 28, 41, Literature 218, 221 66–70, 190, 202 Hemingway, Ernest 196 preface to Douglass’s Narrative 71, 104, Hemmings, Sally 141, 143 105, 115, 204 Henson, Josiah 3, 25, 38, 75–76, 229 Relationship with Douglass 24, 69, 70–71, The Life of Josiah Henson 23, 75 208–09, 211, 212 Truth Stranger Than Fiction 23, 75 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 142, 147–48, 163 Uncle Tom’s Story of his Life 75 The Classic Slave Narrative 7 Hentz, Caroline Lee 118 gender 6 Marcus Warland 4, 122–23 and sexuality 173 The Planter’s Northern Bride 119, 122 gender identity 168 Herald of Freedom 18 Gilbert, Olive 101, 110, 235–37 Herron, Carolivia Gilroy, Paul 11 Thereafter Johnnie 170 Goellnicht, Donald 161 Hildreth, Richard Gomez, Jewelle 170 The Slave 70–71 Gould, Philip 2, 90 Hodes, Martha 145 Gray, Thomas 101 Holmes, Mary Jane the Great Migration 164 ’Lena Rivers 128 Green, Johnson Hopkins, Pauline The Life and Confession of Johnson Green Contending Forces 153 13 Of One Blood 153 Grifﬁth, D.W. Howells, William Dean 158 Birth of a Nation 157, 190 Hughes, Langston 162–63 Grimes, William “The Negro Artist and the Racial Life of William Grimes 104 Mountain” 165 Gronniosaw, Ukasaw 15, 17, 55–56 Hume, David The Black Prince 21 “Of National Character” 22 A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Hurston, Zora Neale 5, 191, 198 Particulars in the Life of James Albert “How it Feels to be Colored Me” 163 Ukasaw Gronniosaw 15, 21, 63 Their Eyes Were Watching God 163 Gunning, Sandra 220 Ibo 65 the Haitian Revolution 171 Imlay, Gilbert 22 Hammon, Briton 15, 17 immediate emancipation 11, 12, 18 Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings individualism 2 and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon 12–13, 86, 103, 160 Jacksonian democracy 34 Hansberry, Lorraine 198 Jacobs, Harriet 5, 6, 7, 41, 125, 130, 228 Harlem 164 authenticity of Incidents 115, 189 Harlem Renaissance 5, 150, 162 Christianity and 31

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conclusion of Incidents 223 Mansﬁeld decision 12–13 disguise in Incidents 120 Marrant, John 17, 55 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 5–6, 7, Narrative 13, 21, 22, 85–86 25, 76–77, 108, 109–12, 147, 153, review of 22 218–22 Marshall, Paule 170 on sexuality in slavery 32–33, 234, 242–43 The Chosen Place, The Timeless People James, Henry 197 170 the Jazz Age 165 Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society 18 Jefferson, Thomas 141, 143, 145 Mather, Cotton 102 Notes on the State of Virginia 22 Matlack, Lucius Jim Crow 153, 190 Introduction to The Life and Adventures Johnson, Charles of Henry Bibb 116, 118–19 “The Education of Mingo” 170 Matthiessen, F. O. Middle Passage 170 American Renaissance 196–97 Oxherding Tale 170, 172, 173 Mattison, Hiram 222, 229, 237, 239–41 Johnson, James Weldon 5, 164 McBride, Dwight A. 228 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man McDowell, Deborah 5, 68, 221 161 McDowell, Deborah and Arnold Rampersad Jones, Absalom 95 Slavery and the Literary Imagination 7 Jones, Edward P. McKay, Nellie 234 The Known World 5, 181 Melville, Herman Jones, Gayl “Benito Cereno” 120 Corregidora 169, 172, 173 Moby Dick 214 Typee 119 Keckley, Elizabeth 6 Memoirs of the Life of Boston King 15 Behind the Scenes 243–44 Mercer, Trudy 191, 194–95 Keizer, Arlene R. Meriwether, Louise Black Subjects 169, 170 Fragments of the Ark 170 King, Boston Middle Passage 45, 91, 159 Memoirs of the Life of Boston King 92 Milton, John 51 Kinkaid, Jamaica 170 Paradise Lost 59 Kolodny, Annette 84 miscegenation 19, 145, 183 Mitchell, Angelyn 169 Larsen, Nella The Freedom to Remember 169 Quicksand 165 Mitchell, Margaret Law, William Gone with the Wind 180, 190 Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life 92 Mitchill, John 18 Levine, Robert 4 Montesquieu, Baron 11 Lewis, David Levering 163 Morison, John 20 The Liberator 18, 66–67, 209 Morrison, Toni 130–31 Liberty Party 18 Beloved 5, 169, 170, 174–80 The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of “Unspeakable Things Unspoken” 178 the Rt. Reverend Richard Allen 15 Morton, Sarah Wentworth The Life, History, and Unparalleled Suffering “The African Chief” 72 of John Jea 15 Murray, John 52 Lincoln, Abraham 35, 201 “House Divided” 213 Narrative of James Williams 19 Lincoln, Mary 244 National Anti-Slavery Standard 18, 209 Locke, Alain 162–64 National Association for the Advancement Locke, John 11 of Colored People 197 natural rights 17 Native Americans (American Indians) 84, The New Negro 164 86 lynching 161 Naylor, Gloria 170

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slave narrative A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin 19, 75–76 authenticity of 25, 30, 34, 69, 70–71, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3, 23, 33, 61, 72–73, 115–16, 238 195, 208 editorial manipulation of 24, 47 Stringland, Susan 233 importance to African American literature Sudan 184 190 Sundquist, Eric J. 101, 171 political philosophy in 2 publication of 2, 11, 14 Thoreau, Henry David religious ideology in 2 “Resistance to Civil Government” 111 representations of freedom in 36–42 Walden 214 sexual abuse and 77, 109, 110 Tompkins, Jane sexuality and 32–33 Sensational Designs 192, 198 slave trade 2, 14, 150 Toomer, Jean abolition of 11, 16, 47 Cane 165 slavery 2, 5, 6, 11, 13, 16, 123, 150 Truth, Sojourner 6, 234–37, 243 British (colonial) 2 “Ar’n’tIaWoman” 234, 235, 236 challenges of representing 225–29 Contribution to Fanaticism 236–37 Du Bois on 159 Narrative 101, 109–11, 235–37 Hurston on 163 Turner, Nat memories of 175 The Confessions of Nat Turner 24, 101 sexual violence and exploitation in 151, Rebellion 24 172, 193, 196, 233, 237, 238, 241, 243 Twain, Mark 180 stereotypes of men and women in 232 Toomer on 164 Underground Railroad 173, 227 US slavery 2 Smith, Adam Vaughan, Benjamin 100 Wealth of Nations 17 Vietnam 197 Smith, Gerrit 209, 210, 211 Smith, James McCune 106, 201, 208, 209, Walcott, Derek 210 Dream on Monkey Mountain 170 Introduction to My Bondage and My Walker, Alice 170, 198 Freedom 118, 131, 211 Walker, Margaret Smith, Stephanie 5–6 Jubilee 170 Smith, Valerie 5, 221 Ward, Samuel Ringgold 19, 41, 42, Smith, Venture 3, 4, 17, 25 109 A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Warner, Susan Venture 14, 83, 86–92, 103–04 The Wide, Wide World 117, 119 Somerset, James 13 Washington, Booker T. 5, 154–56, 163 Sons of Africa 64 “Atlanta Exposition” 154–64 Southworth, E. D. E. N. 117 “The Secret of Success in Public Speaking” The Hidden Hand 116, 121–22 155–56 spiritual autobiography 3–4, 13, 21, 48–50, Up From Slavery 44, 155–56, 159, 218 63, 64, 83, 92 Weathermen 197 Franklin and 102 Webb, Frank Starling, Marion 192 The Garies and Their Friends 5, 144 Stauffer, John 6 Wedgwood anti-slavery icon 64 Stephens, Marion Weinstein, Cindy 4 Hagar, the Martyr 119, 127–28 Weld, Theodore Dwight Stepto, Robert 146, 160, 189, 190 American Slavery As It Is 19 Stokes, Mason 158 Wheatley, Phillis 15, 54, 55–56, 191 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 3, 23, 117, 144 “On Being Brought from Africa to Harriet Jacobs and 76, 193 America” 18 Henson and 229 Poems 15, 22

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