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Oxford University Press
July 2008
On Sale: June 27, 2008
Featuring: William Grimes
ISBN: 0195343328
EAN: 9780195343328
Kindle: B0052XUFZA
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave 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
Life 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 authors 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.
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