Kate Drumgoold

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Kate Drumgoold was born as an enslaved person around 1858? near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her autobiography, A Slave Girl's story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education.[1] "It is rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South."

References [edit]

  1. ^ Gardner, Eric. “Drumgoold, Kate” African American National Biography. Edited by Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford African American Studies Center, (10/04/2012)

Further reading [edit]

  • Jones, Sharon L. “Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives. ” MELUS (2000): 307 in Context. Web 13 Sept 2012.
  • Gardner, Eric. “Drumgoold, Kate” African American National Biography. Edited by Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford African American Studies Center, (10/04/2012)
  • DePriest, Tomika. Drumgoold, Kate,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia., ed Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing Inc.

1993 356-357.

  • Andrews, William L., ed Six Women's Slave Narratives (1988).
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