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The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de Daphne A. Brooks (introduction), Daphne A. Brooks (introduction et notes), Jeffrey Gonda (introduction et notes), Jeffrey Gonda (introduction)
Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics
juin 2009

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The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.

Collected in this volume are four published slave narratives of daring escapes to freedom. William and Ellen Craft’s Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom (1860), tells the story of the couple reaching freedom in 1848 by travelling openly by train—with Ellen Craft posing as a white male planter and William as her servant. This is followed by two versions of Henry “Box” Brown’s escape by mailing himself to Philadelphia in 1849—Narrative of Henry “Box” Brown, published that same year in America and Narrative of the Life of Henry “Box” Brown, published in 1851 in Britain. Finally, William Wells Brown’s Narrative of William Wells Brown (1847), tells of the young man’s surreptitious exit from a steamboat docked in Ohio, a free state, in 1834.

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Éditeur : Barnes & Noble Classics

Publication : 1 juin 2009

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 1,38 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781411432253

EAN13 (papier) : 9781593082949

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