Books by William L. Andrews

Slave Narratives (LOA #114): James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner ... / William and Ell (Library of America)

by William L. Andrews

(68 reviews)

This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition No literary genre speaks... See More

Classic American Autobiographies

by William L. Andrews

(55 reviews)

The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies -- including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, and more... A True History of the... See More

Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

by William L. Andrews

(6 reviews)

Four early American women tell their own stories: Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676, Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knight on her travels in New England, Elizabeth Ashbridge on her personal odyssey from... See More

The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology

by William L. Andrews

(3 reviews)

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American... See More

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

by William L. Andrews

(17 reviews)

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the... See More

Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865

by William L. Andrews

(9 reviews)

"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or... See More

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

by William L. Andrews

(71 reviews)

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors... See More

North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by William L. Andrews

(9 reviews)

The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are... See More

Slave Narratives after Slavery

by William L. Andrews

(1 review)

The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865... See More

Gale Researcher Guide for: Frederick Douglass: Reinventing the Slave Narrative

by William L. Andrews

Gale Researcher Guide for: Frederick Douglass: Reinventing the Slave Narrative is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in... See More

Classic African American Women's Narratives

by William L. Andrews

(1 review)

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces... See More

Classic African American Women's Narratives (Schomburg Library of Black Women Writers)

by William L. Andrews

(1 review)

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces... See More