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While the slave narratives provided a voice for black experience, they also circumscribed that voice. The antebellum slave narrator portrayed himself as an objective and representative witness of southern slavery in order to persuade white northern audiences to join the antislavery cause.
The most influential slave narratives of the antebellum era were designed to enlighten white readers about both the realities of slavery as an institution and the humanity of black people as individuals deserving of full human rights.
No wonder, then, that many of the antebellum narratives tell of fellow slaves who resisted even glancing in a books direction for fear of the pun ishments meted out to those caught interacting with the alphabet (Starling 244). In this sense, the slave was doubly enslaved: not only was she somebody
Slave narrative, an account of the life, or a major portion of the life, of a fugitive or former slave, either written or orally related by the slave personally. Slave narratives comprise one of the most influential traditions in American literature, shaping the form and themes of some of the most.
149–164. Published: 13 January 2014. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This article examines the antebellum African American slave narrative as a material artifact by discussing the genre’s diverse practices of authorship, publication, and circulation.
Such is the spectrum of writings known as slave narratives, a term originally re-served for the separately published antebellum accounts, but whose widened appli-cation over time and circumstance speaks of a generic power present even in periods of institutional neglect. Eighteenth-century examples, like many other American prose
before the rise of antebellum slave narratives in the 1830s, Barbary cap tivity narratives offered some of the most brutal and heartless descriptions of slavery, and as well some of the first depictions of Africans, in all of early American print culture. These texts played a major role in early American
