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Slavery From the Inside — as Only a Slave Could Show It

Certain scholars doubted an ex-slave could have written ‘The Bondwoman’s Narrative,’ a novel that channeled Dickens’s ‘Bleak House’ and evinced familiarity with the genres of gothic and sentimental fiction.

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Title page of 'The Bondwoman's Narrative,' circa 1853-61. Via Wikimedia Commons