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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

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Availability:In StockContributor:William L. Andrews (Editor), Regina E. Mason (Editor)Publish date:2008-07-31Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195343328ISBN-10:195343328UPC:9780195343328Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, American, United StatesBook Topic:African American & Black, 19th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCFN2KFBKN

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his Life has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195343328ISBN-10:195343328UPC:9780195343328Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, American, United StatesBook Topic:African American & Black, 19th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCFN2KFBKN
William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English and Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt (1980) and To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 (1986). He is co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American...
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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