Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave: Annotated Edition Tapa dura - 2013

LSU Press, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cultural Studies Dust jacket has edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Boards have edge wear, rubbed/slightly bumped corners, rubbed spine. No writing.

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2013. Hardcover. New. annotated edition. 190 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New. The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the time were unable to defend the book; and, until now, historians could not verify Williams's identity or find the Alabama slave owners he named in the book. As a result, most scholars characterized the author as a fraud, perhaps never even a slave, or at least not under the circumstances described in the book. In this annotated edition of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Hank Trent provides newly discovered biographical information about the true author of the book -- an African American man enslaved in Alabama and Virginia. Trent identifies Williams's owners in those states as well as in Maryland and Louisiana. He explains how Williams escaped from slavery and then… Leer más