Kate Drumgoold (born c. 1858 or 1859 – ?) was an American woman born into slavery around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her 1898 autobiography, A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education. "It is a rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South."
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Andrews, William L., ed. Six Women's Slave Narratives (1988). DePriest, Tomika. "Drumgoold, Kate", Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993, 356–357. Drumgoold, Kate. A Slave Girl's Story. Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. Brooklyn: The Author, 1898. Fleischner, Jennifer. Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives, New York: New York University Press, 1996 Gwin, Minrose C. "Drumgoold, Kate," The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 237. Jones, Sharon L. "Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives". MELUS (2000): 307 in Context. Malburne, Meredith. "Summary of A Slave Girl's Story. Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold". Documenting the American South. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.