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Fictionalized Slave Narratives Listed Alphabetically
The antislavery movement in the nineteenth century generated a number of narratives about slavery, some widely read, that were subsequently revealed to be fictitious or heavily fictionalized, though sometimes based on an actual case or person. The following titles represent nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts that are now regarded as substantially fictitious or highly novelized accounts of slavery.