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Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by herself was first published in 1861. Since then, it has remained the classic example of the slave narrative genre. The autobiography tells of her life as a slave and her escape to the north in the 1830s.

In order to answer the doubt that he was ever a slave, Frederick Douglass wrote his autobiography in 1845. He rewrote this in 1881 as The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. The book has since become a classic of American literature and a source of inspiration to countless American youths.

The South's most celebrated author is William Faulkner, who told stories of a mythical Mississippi county called Yoknapatawpha. The 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury is a most powerful tale of the South's decline, partially narrated by a mentally impaired man named Benjy Compson.

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