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Novels about slavery, the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labor. Slavery typically involves compulsory work with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage.
This category includes novels about slavery set in the area that is, or became, the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Depictions of slavery in fiction, the status of someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
First published in serialized form from 1851–52 (in the abolitionist journal The National Era), and in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe quickly became the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible). [1]
Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by American writer Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle Passage.Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who sneaks aboard a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a ...
Thompson's book contains major chapters that focus on topics that include George Washington and Martha Washington as slave owners; George Washington's changes in views about slavery over time; supervisors of slaves who were hired, indentured, or enslaved; family life in Mount Vernon's slave community; the slaves' quarters; the slaves' diets; slaves' recreation and private enterprise; and ...
When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for a short story to go in their collection, Autographs for Freedom, Douglass responded with The Heroic Slave. The novella, published in 1852 by John P. Jewett and Company, was Douglass's first and only published work of fiction (though he did publish several autobiographical ...
It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times and [2] one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time. [3] The book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography with the award committee calling it "an American love story—one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all—one that ...