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Direct linkStover, Johnnie M. – College English, 2003
The power of black women's personal narratives emerging out of nineteenth-century America rested in their sociopolitical as well as in their literary contributions. These slave narratives and autobiographical texts, however, were either ignored, sentimentalized, or reduced in scope as addenda to the abolitionist-inspired texts produced by black…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Slavery, Autobiographies
