Fugitive Slave Narratives and the (Re)presentation of the Self? The Cases of Frederick Douglass and William Brown

By focusing on a selection of Frederick Douglass’s and William Wells Brown’s antebellum works, this article examines how representations of slavery evolved through time. It shows how the historical and material conditions in which slave autobiographies were produced influenced their content. By anal...

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Main Author: Lawrence Aje
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
Series:L'Ordinaire des Amériques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/orda/507