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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave - Written by Himself (Slavery Biography) (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave - Written by Himself (Slavery Biography) (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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The Life of William Grimes offers an eye-opening account of a life
during and after slavery, written by a man who experienced and
witnessed the worst. Unlike other slave memoirs, The Life of
William Grimes has not been sanitized or otherwise edited for the
benefit of what, at the time, was a mostly white readership. The
tone set by Grimes in his recollections is one of bitter resentment
and indignation at an experience which was demeaning, physically
and mentally torturing, and an insult to his very humanity.
Intelligent and perceptive, it was only through luck and trusting
his own wits that William was able to escape his enslavement. The
son of a white plantation owner and a black mother who worked as
his father's slave, Grimes variously worked around the plantation
grounds as a coach driver, stable boy, and in the fields.
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