Classic African American Women's Narratives

Classic African Women's Narrtives is a one-volume compilation of the best and the best-known fictional, autobiographical, and journalistic writing by African American women during the first great era of a black women's writing in the U.S., from 1831 to 1865. The book contains a wide range of original achievements in African American women's literary history, including the first spiritual autobiography, the first short story, the first novel, and the first autobiography by a black woman.