Record #:

1092

Author(s):

Gantt, Patricia

Abstract:

Omar ibn Sayid was a 19th-century Arabic scholar/slave in North Carolina whose writings chronicle the thoughts and conditions of slaves in America.

Source:

North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Spring 1993, p180-182, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Authors; Sayid (Said) (Sayyid), Omar ibn, c. 1770-1864; Slaves' writings

Record #:

5716

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

Camden's Moses Grandy, a waterman from the 1790s to the 1830s, wrote THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF MOSES GRANDY, WHO WAS A SLAVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the only account of maritime life in the state written by a former slave.

Source:

Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 4, Oct 1994, p6-13, f

Subject(s):

Slaves' writings

Record #:

15857

Author(s):

Trudier, Harris

Abstract:

George Moses Horton published a volume of poetry in 1829, an great accomplishment for a slave in the early 19th-century. Entitled \"The Hope of Liberty,\" Horton argued that African Americans given the same freedoms and liberties would thrive and achieve equally great things as their non-enslaved contemporaries. A historical marker at the intersection of US 15-501 and Mt. Gilead Church was dedicated in his memory with Horton's ancestors in attendance.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 54 Issue 3, July 2006, p104-105, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slaves' writings

Record #:

20203

Author(s):

Jacobs, Heidi LM

Abstract:

After the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, several novels were written in response to highlight the pros and cons of slavery. One of the novels to tout the propaganda of slavery in the South, The Planter's Northern Bride, was written by Caroline Lee Hentz. Hentz was born a Northerner but lived in the South for nearly 30 years and adopted it as her home. Harriet Ann Jacobs wrote an anti-slavery book in 1861 which documented her experiences as a slave. Her autobiographical slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was originally meant to be appropriated for Stowe's next book. Jacobs was offended by this proposal and declared she would write her story herself.

Source:

North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 8, 1999, p67-83 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slaves' writings