Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the historical (slave) narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical...
Tag : Historical novel
Middle Passage
Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it...
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her. She...
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The Bondwoman’s Narrative tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young enslaved woman working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, who runs away in a...
Roots
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from....