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This is a critical edition of three women's oral slave narratives.

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These three oral life narratives of ex-slave women, originally spoken through a second-person interviewer, will interest all readers ... The book is a welcome addition for the fields of oral history, women's studies, African American studies, and US history and culture. - CHOICE This book provides an important chronology of nineteenth-century women's life. It organizes and summarizes a wealth of historical materials, offering scholars and other readers an unprecedented and rich resource. - Joycelyn Moody, author of Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women

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DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's Studies and Director of African American Studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press. Reginald H. Pitts is Associate Editor, Clarence Mitchell Jr. Papers. He is the coeditor (with P. Gabrielle Foreman) of Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.

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