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The Columbia History of the American NovelHis Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) details Douglass's early life of bondage and his liberating discovery of his authorial voice. Douglass's work shows familiarity with previous texts concerning slavery and emancipation, but his book became the classic slave narrative, archetypal of its genre. The dates regarding Douglass's life are, by his own admission, unreliable, as slaves were not routinely provided with birth records. However, Douglass was born in Maryland, the son of a black slave woman and a free white male. After witnessing the dissolution of his family, the sexual abuse of his aunt, and beatings from his owners, Douglass escaped and made his way to New York in 1838. In 1841 Douglass attended an antislavery convention in Nantucket where he was "moved to speak," and he subsequently became involved in the abolitionist movement. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) The son of former slaves, Dunbar was born and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. Both his parents had taught themselves to read, and his mother especially shared and nurtured her son's early love of poetry and literature ...» |
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