SOURCE: “‘I Was Born’: Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature,” in Callaloo, No. 20, Winter, 1984, pp. 46-60.
In the following excerpt, Olney provides a list of slave-narrative conventions and considers the impact of white amanuenses on the construction of slave narratives. Olney also compares the narratives of Frederick Douglass, Henry Box Brown, and Solomon Northup.
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