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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave: Written by Himself (Slavery Biography) (Hardcover)

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave: Written by Himself (Slavery Biography) (Hardcover)

Grimes, William

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ISBN10: 1387974726
ISBN13: 9781387974726
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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