{"product_id":"9780451532138","title":"The Classic Slave Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003eA seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's top experts in African American studies, presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFascinating and powerful, this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent), Mary Price, and Olaudah Equiano (alias Gustavus Vassa). These amazing stories are not only first-person histories of the highest caliber, they are also a unique literary form that has given birth to the spirit, vitality, and vision of America's modern black writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUpdated with the ninth edition of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition he revised and published in his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a Revised and Updated Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signet Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49029770969315,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780451532138-1.jpg?v=1788340867","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780451532138","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}