Three selected narratives exemplify an interesting, sometimes little-known area of American Negro history and writing
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About "Great Slave Narratives"
During much of the nineteenth century, slave narratives were best sellers for American publishers. Arna Bontemps chose for this book three outstanding examples of the genre: "The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself," the first of the slave narratives to gain wide attention; "The Fugitive Blacksmith," by the first African American to write a history of his people in America; and "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom," an exciting story of a courageous slave couple's escape to the North and then to England--perhaps the last high point in the development of the slave narrative genre. This genre, an exciting and too little known part of American literature and history, has also played an important role in the development of such distinguished authors as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
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