{"product_id":"life-of-william-grimes-the-runaway-slave-paperback","title":"Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam L. Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRegina E. Mason\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave\u003c\/em\u003e is 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, his \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e has 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 a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam L. Andrews\u003c\/strong\u003e is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English and Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt\u003c\/em\u003e (1980) and \u003cem\u003eTo Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 \u003c\/em\u003e(1986). He is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Companion to African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), and general editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e (1998). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegina E. Mason, \u003c\/strong\u003e Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter, has spent fifteen years exploring the life and times of autobiographer William Grimes, his wife, their children, and the communities in which they lived. She enjoys genealogy and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 31, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984028238125,"sku":"9780195343328","price":47.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/DbUswbBP0H9780195343328.webp?v=1776081479","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/life-of-william-grimes-the-runaway-slave-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}