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Resources

Books

Barnet, Miguel. Biography of a Runaway Slave, Williamantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1994.

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, Steven Miller. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom, New York: The New Press, 1998.

Bok, Francis. Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity - and My Journey to Freedom in America, New York: St. Martins Press, 2003.

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, Spencer Crew, Cynthia Goodman. Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives, New York: Bulfinch Press, 2002.

Gates, Henry Louis. The Classic Slave Narratives, New York: Signet, 2002.

Potkay, Adam and Burr, Sandra. Black Atantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995: 185-189.

Price, Richard. Maroon Society: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Journals

Costanzo, Angelo. "The Narrative of Archibald Montieth, A Jamaican Slave." Callaloo 13, 1990:115-130.

Montieth, John. "Archibald John Montieth: Native Helper ad Assistant in the Jamaica Mission at New Carmel." Callaloo 13, 1990:102-114.

Articles & Papers

Thompson, Era Bell, The Vaughan Family a Tale of Two Continents, Ebony, February 1975. 53-64.

Lindsay, Lisa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Slavery, Migration, and Anti-Colonialism: One Family's History of the African Diaspora. Paper presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2003.

Cudjoe, Selwyn. Wellesley College, Identity and Caribbean Literature. Paper presented at the A lecture delivered to the Japanese Black Studies Association at Nara Women's College, Nara, Japan June 24, 2001.

Online

Documenting the American South, "First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920"

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition - Liverpool, UK

North American Slave Narratives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries

North American Slave Narratives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries

UNESCO Department of Intercultural Dialogue and Pluralism for a Culture of Peace

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Harriet Tubman Resource Center on the African Diaspora, Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada.

"Two Hundred Years of Migration to England."

"Slavery Narrative"

"Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-38.

"North American Slave Narratives: An Introductions to the Slave Narratives

"Heritage of Slavery in South Africa,"

"Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries."

Baquaqua, Mahommah. "Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa." 1854.

Jacobs, Harriet aka Linda Brent, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, 1861.

Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave 1831.

Manzano, Juan Francisco. Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa, 1840.

Credits

The online exhibit, Slave Narratives is based on the Slavery Passage Gallery exhibit at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco.

Slavery Passage Exhibit

Concept and Design: Sussman/Prejza

Primary Research: Shiree Dyson

Script Development: Batwin and Robin

Edits and Additional Research: Guy Johnson and Maya Angelou

Cast

Narrator: Maya Angelou

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: Peter Fitzsimmons

Francis Bok: Travis Lawrence

Tempe Herndon Durham: Loretta Devine

Olauda Equiano: Barry "Shabaka" Henley

Fountain Hughes: Guy Johnson

Harreit Jacobs: Margarette Robinson

Juan Francisco Manzano: Felix Justice

Esteban Montejo: Ted Lange

Mary Prince: Hattie Winston

Audio

Produced & Directed by: Ron Stacker Thompson

Sound Design: Al Ramirez

Original Score: Michael Brassell

Coordinators: Debbie Zip, Raymond Victorio, Pamela Goodlow Green

Interactive & Podcast

Produced by: Shiree Dyson and Eduardo Pineda, MoAD

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