Publication History
From the Darkness was originally published in St. Louis in 1891 by J.T. Smith. After the rise of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement and feminism, and new interest in historic black and women's literature, in 1988 the book was reprinted in the collection Six Women’s Slave Narratives by Oxford University Press. It is carried online by Project Gutenberg, as well as by the University of North Carolina in its Documents of the American South .
The literary critic P. Gabrielle Foreman has suggested that the author Frances Harper based her character of "Lucille Delaney" in the novel Iola Leroy (1892) on the historic Delaney’s memoir published the year before.
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