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African American literature of slavery has a translation history dating from at least the 1840s.  One of the Project's collections addresses this history, with special attention to translations of Frederick Douglass published from the 19th-century to the present day.  The collection includes podcast readings of selected chapters from Douglass' 1845 narrative in French, Hebrew, Spanish, and most recently a Chinese reading by Prof. John Zou.  Read more...
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The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son

by Antislavery Webmaster — last modified 2005-08-11 17:42

Juvenile antislavery novel by Smith H. Platt (New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1859). Digitized by Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

The link address is: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/platt/menu.html