Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky - A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave

Informationen zum Autor C. L. Innes is professor emerita of postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She is the author of numerous books and articles on African, African American, and Black British literature, including Chinua Achebe and A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000. Klappentext In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try to escape. He joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric, and married an Englishwoman. In 1857, he traveled with his wife to Great Britain, where he lectured on behalf of the antislavery cause and published two versions of his life story. Together the two works present a mesmerizing and distinct perspective on slavery in the South. Long forgotten and never before published in the United States, Fedric's narratives, collected here for the first time, are certain to take their rightful place alongside the most recognizable accounts in the canon of slave memoirs.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Frederick, C. L. (EDT)/ Innes Innes
• Assisted by: C L Innes (Editor), C. L. Innes (Editor)
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780807136836
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3683-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Library of Southern Civilizati; Library of Southern Civilizati
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, History - U.S., USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)