SOURCE: “I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives,” in From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative, University of Illinois Press, 1991, pp. 3-16.
In the following excerpt, originally published in 1979, Stepto discusses Northup's work as an example of an integrated slave narrative that places documents authenticating the slave experience into the tale.
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