Studies in Short Fiction, June 22nd, 1997
When you can control a [person's] thinking you don't have to worry about [that person's] actions.
--Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)
... never would I be able to write a book about my life, or even a pamphlet, but ... write something I could and would.
--Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
Frederick Douglass details the horrors of American slavery quite eloquently in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself(1845). In fact, for many scholars, teachers, and students, Douglass's narrative is, as James Olney ...
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