Table of Contents:
  • Mary Prince: black rebel, abolitionist, storyteller / Margot Maddison-MacFadyn
  • Solomon Northup: twelve years a slave, forever a witness / Ginger Jones
  • Rewriting the American self: race, gender, and identity in the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs / Kimberly Drake (reprint)
  • Gaps and silences: unconventional methods of "speaking" in the narratives of Mary Prince and Harriet Jacobs / Christopher Carranza
  • 12 Years a Slave: the ecstatic truth of slavery / Dylan Moses Griffin
  • Ottoman slave narratives: selfhood and faith, trials and travails / Defne Türker Demir
  • Unspeakable things spoken: re-evaluating the slave narrative as a response to Antebellum anti-abolition politicking / Christopher Allen Varlack
  • Can you write the black revolution? The black literary tradition, slave narratives, and the depoliticizing and silencing of guerilla black mass protest / Aminah Wallace
  • The critics on Uncle Tom's Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe's audience and social change / Gerardo Del Guercio
  • Decentralized power and resistance in The Bondwoman's Narrative / Dong L. Isbister
  • The strong, disabled African American slave in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred / Katherine Lashley
  • "Terrible memory": Toni Morrison's Beloved / Kimberly Drake
  • A house is not a home: property lines in Edward P. Jones' The Known World / Richard Hardack.