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The Life of a Slave Girl - Women's Slave Narratives - cover
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The Life of a Slave Girl - Women's Slave Narratives

Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Martha Griffith Browne, Nina Hill Robinson, Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Prince, Annie L. Burton, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Emma and Lloyd Ray

Editora: e-artnow

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This edition brings to you the most powerful voices of women who survived slavery in 18th and 19th century. Their life stories, their actions and their truth had an impact on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire and the subsequent abolition of slavery. 
Today, in our "modern" society, there are over 30 million girls and women who are victims of slavery. Some of the survivors are trying to fight with their voices. However, in this era - everybody is listening, but sadly nobody is reacting. 

This collection includes:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The History of Mary Prince
Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)
A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold)
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney)
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell)
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray)
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (Annie L. Burton)
Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nina Hill Robinson)
Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne)
Disponível desde: 17/02/2023.
Comprimento de impressão: 1508 páginas.

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