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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 the better
known nineteenth-century texts that are now regarded as novels or highly
novelized accounts of slavery.
- Browne, Martha Griffith, d. 1906. Autobiography of a Female Slave. New York: Redfield, 1857.
- Chandler, Charles. The Story of a Slave; a Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times Hitherto Unwritten. Chicago: Wesley, Elmore & Benson, 1894.
- Crafts, Hannah. The Bondwoman's Narrative. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.New York:Warner Books, 2002.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. The Heroic Slave. Julia Griffiths, ed., Autographs for Freedom (Boston: Jewett, 1853), pp. 174-239.
- Griest, Ellwood, 1824-1900. John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania. Lancaster, PA: Inquirer, 1873.
- Hammond, Jabez Delano, 1778-1855. Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several other Eminent American Statesmen. Syracuse, NY: Hall & Dickson, 1847.
- Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865. The Slave, or Memoirs of Archy Moore. (2 Vols) Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1836. [Link to Volume 2]
- ---. The White Slave, or, Memoirs of a Fugitive. Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852.
- Lintner, Grace, 1832-1919. Bond and Free; a Tale of the South. Indianapolis, IN: C. B. Ingraham, 1882.
- Neilson, Peter, 1795-1861. The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. London: Smith, Elder, 1847.
- Pierson, Emily Catharine. Jamie Parker, the Fugitive. Hartford: Brockett, Fuller, 1851.
- Platt, Smith H. The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son. New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1859.
- Richmond, Legh, 1772-1827. "The Negro Servant" in Annals of the Poor. Containing The Dairyman's Daughter, (with considerable additions) The Negro Servant, and The Young Cottager. New Haven: Whiting and Tiffany, Sign of Franklin's Head, Corner of College Green, 1815.
- Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen from Africa and Sold into Slavery. Related by Themselves. Manchester: Wm. Irwin, 1849.
- The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times-- Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress.[Chicago]: Wesley, Elmore & Benson, 1894.
- Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorn Clemens), 1835-1910. "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It." The Atlantic Monthly Nov. 1874: 591-594.
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