This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representatio

From the 1760s to Barack Obama, this collection offers fresh looks at classic African American life narratives; highlights neglected African American lives, tex

A collection of the best critical essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives. Will also contain an introduction by the editor (a respected scholar in t

Slave narratives were one of the earliest forms of African American writing. These works, autobiographical in nature, later fostered other pieces of African Ame

To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narra