Mary Prince: black rebel, abolitionist, storyteller / Solomon Northup: twelve years a slave, forever a witness / Rewriting the American self: race, gender, and identity in the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs / Gaps and silences: unconventional methods of "speaking" in the narratives of Mary Prince and Harriet Jacobs / 12 Years a Slave: the ecstatic truth of slavery / Ottoman slave narratives: selfhood and faith, trials and travails / Unspeakable things spoken: re-evaluating the slave narrative as a response to Antebellum anti-abolition politicking / Can you write the black revolution? The black literary tradition, slave narratives, and the depoliticizing and silencing of guerilla black mass protest / The critics on Uncle Tom's Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe's audience and social change / Decentralized power and resistance in The Bondwoman's Narrative / The strong, disabled African American slave in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred / "Terrible memory": Toni Morrison's Beloved / A house is not a home: property lines in Edward P. Jones' The Known World