Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist lecturer thro

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Cover -- Contents -- A Re-Introduction to Lewis Clarke, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Hero -- FACSIMILE OF THE NARRATIVE BY LEWIS CLARKE -- PREFACE. -- NARR

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and storie