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First printing. An examination of slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative,discussed in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews, to Sherley Anne William's Dessa Rose (1984). Arnold Rampersad discusses W.E.B. DuBois's classic work The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping, focusing on Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Bontemps Black Thunder. Two of the selections examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; Carolyn L. Karcher reads Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic as an abolitionist vision of America's racial destiny. In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowell's reading of Desa Rose reveals how slavery and freedom-- dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature-- continue to command the attention of contemporary authors. 172pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. .ISBN # 0-8018-37561 

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