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11 Facts About Slave Narratives That You May Not Know

7136764_f520The autobiographies and narratives by enslaved people were not just a life’s account. They were more of a way of powerfully reaching equality. Henry Louis Gates, the famed researcher, wrote, “The presupposition went, a black person could become a human being by an act of self-creation through the mastery of language.”

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