Life of William Grimes, the runaway slave / edited by William L. Andrews and Regina E. Mason.

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Grimes, William, 1784-1865

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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 145 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0199711143
9780199711147
1281529354
9781281529350
9786611529352
6611529357

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life of William Grimes, the runaway slave.DDC classification:

306.3/62092 B 22

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E444.G85 A3 2008eb

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; Introduction; Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave; Chronology; Afterword; Notes

Summary: Annotation Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slaveis 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, hisLifehas an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography represents an historic partnership between noted scholar of the African American slave narrative, William L. Andrews, and Regina Mason, Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter. Their extensive historical and genealogical research has produced an authoritative, copiously annotated text that features pages from an original Grimes family Bible, transcriptions of the 1824 correspondence that set the terms for the author's self-purchase in Connecticut (nine years after his escape from Savannah, Georgia), and many other striking images that invoke the life and times of William Grimes.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145).

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Annotation Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slaveis 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, hisLifehas an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography represents an historic partnership between noted scholar of the African American slave narrative, William L. Andrews, and Regina Mason, Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter. Their extensive historical and genealogical research has produced an authoritative, copiously annotated text that features pages from an original Grimes family Bible, transcriptions of the 1824 correspondence that set the terms for the author's self-purchase in Connecticut (nine years after his escape from Savannah, Georgia), and many other striking images that invoke the life and times of William Grimes.

List of Illustrations; Introduction; Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave; Chronology; Afterword; Notes

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