Silvia Dubois, A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom

by C. W. Larison, Jared C. Lobdell

Overview

In an extended interview in 1883 Silvia Dubois, then nearly 100 years old, told her life story to Dr. Larison. This edition preserves Larison's idiosyncratic phonetic spelling, with annotations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052398
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.83(w) x 4.94(h) x 0.96(d)

Editorial Reviews

"This book may be mostly history or it may be mostly folklore, but it is in any case well worth reading. It is a colloquy—an extended interview—with a long foreword by the interviewer and two appendices...the colloquy took place on January 27, 1883 on Sourland Mountain, near the border between Hunterton and Somerset counties in New Jersey....What we have here throughout is the material for social history, particularly for that part of social hisory deasling with slave life and the life of the uneducated free black in the middle-states part of the north, from the end of the eighteenth century to as late as 1883."—James C. Lobdell, in his Introduction

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