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Frances Foster's classic study of pre-Civil War American slave autobiography is now issued in an accessible paperback edition. The first book to represent these slave narratives as literary in the complete sense of the word, and the first study to call attention to the significance of gender in the narratives, Witnessing Slavery will be welcomed by both general readers and students of the American south, slavery, the Civil War, and race issues.
Review Quotes: "An important, seminal work. . . . Frances Smith Foster has created a masterful account and interpretation of the earliest black and black-related literature. . . . It can and should be read by any general reader, black or otherwise, who is interested or concerned with the painful but exhilarating struggle of a people searching for not only freedom, but identity and humanity."--William J. Teague, Journal of Negro History