ISBN:
0199711143
,
9780199711147
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 145 p., [24] p. of plates)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Life of William Grimes, the runaway slave
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
Grimes, William 1784-1865
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Grimes, William 1784-1865 Family
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Grimes, William Family
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Grimes, William
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Grimes, William
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Grimes, William Family
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Grimes, William b. 1784
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Grimes, William b. 1784 Family
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Grimes, William 1784-1865
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Grimes, William
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Slaves Biography
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United States
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Fugitive slaves Biography
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United States
;
Slaves Biography
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Virginia
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King George County
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African Americans Biography
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Connecticut
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New Haven
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Slaves' writings, American
;
Slaves Biography
;
Fugitive slaves Biography
;
Slaves Biography
;
African Americans Biography
;
African Americans Biography
;
Slaves' writings, American
;
Slaves Biography
;
Slaves Biography
;
Fugitive slaves Biography
;
Slaves
;
Slaves' writings, American
;
Fugitive slaves
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists
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African Americans
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Families
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Biographies
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King George County (Va.) Biography
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New Haven (Conn.) Biography
;
Connecticut
;
New Haven
;
United States
;
Virginia
;
King George County
;
New Haven (Conn.) Biography
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King George County (Va.) Biography
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King George County (Va.) Biography
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New Haven (Conn.) Biography
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Connecticut ; New Haven
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United States
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Virginia ; King George County
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Electronic books Biography
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Biografie
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Biografie
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145). - Description based on print version record
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