Narrativas de mulheres escravizadas nos Estados Unidos do século XIX

abstract

In the United States, and also in other English-speaking countries, personal accounts of former slaves are considered a literary genre called Slave Narratives. The genre includes different types of autobiographical accounts of Africans or African-Americans subject to slave labor in the Americas and/or to the Atlantic slave trade. Based on the slave narratives Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Tubman, two American runway slaves from the antebellum period, we strive to understand better how the paths taken by these women, although very different from each other, are representative of their agency, resistance and womanhood in the context of slavery.

keywords:
Slave narrative; Abolitionism; Gender; Harriet Jacobs; Harriet Tubman