Contemporary Slave Narratives
A contemporary slave narrative is a memoir published now, written by a former slave, or ghost-written on their behalf.
Examples include:
- Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity – and My Journey to Freedom in America (2003) by Francis Bok and Edward Tivnan.
- Restavec by Jean-Robert Cadet vividly recounted his life as a restavec in Haiti.
- "Peter's story", by Peter Doyle, in A tribute to The Lost People of Arlington House, The National Archives, London, 2004.
- Slave by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis.
- Unchained Memories - an HBO documentary with readings from slave narratives (2003).
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“... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a women’s movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue, I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)