Testaments of Courage: Selections from Men's Slave Narratives (African-American Experience)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The abolitionists of the nineteenth century believed that if people in the North knew of the horrors of slavery they would demand its end. Talks by escaped slaves and the publication of slave narratives were sponsored by abolitionist groups in order to inform the public about the evils of slavery. As the struggle to end slavery intensified and the movement grew in numbers after the 1830s, an increasing number of slave narratives continued to appear until the Civil War. Slave narratives followed a similar form, describing the author's suffering on the plantation, the terrible conditi...
ISBN(s)
0531112055, 9780531112052
