{"id":45177,"date":"2016-01-19T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45177"},"modified":"2017-04-22T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:42:21","slug":"life-of-william-grimes-the-runaway-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45177","title":{"rendered":"Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/life-of-william-grimes-the-runaway-slave-9780195343311?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2008-07-28<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\n21 illus.<br \/>\n5 1\/2 X 8 1\/4 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780195343311<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780195343328<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/englishcomplit.unc.edu\/people\/andrewsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William L. Andrews<\/a><\/strong>, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English; Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reginamason.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regina E. Mason<\/a><\/strong>, Grimes&#8217;s great-great-great-granddaughter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/life-of-william-grimes-the-runaway-slave-9780195343311?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/covers\/pop-up\/9780195343311\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first fugitive slave narrative in American history<\/li>\n<li>A candid, unfiltered, and fully authenticated account of both slavery and so-called freedom in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931849)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antebellum U.S.<\/a> before the advent of the American antislavery movement<\/li>\n<li>A unprecedented editorial partnership blending scholarship and family history to yield a unique modern edition of a neglected classic of antislavery literature<\/li>\n<li>No other slave narrative has been recovered, researched, and annotated by a slave&#8217;s descendent until now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave<\/em> is the first fugitive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slave_narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slave narrative<\/a> in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his <em>Life<\/em> has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes&#8217;s autobiography represents a historic partnership between noted scholar of the African American slave narrative, William L. Andrews, and Regina Mason, Grimes&#8217;s great-great-great-granddaughter. Their extensive historical and genealogical research has produced an authoritative, copiously annotated text that features pages from an original Grimes family Bible, transcriptions of the 1824 correspondence that set the terms for the author&#8217;s self-purchase in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connecticut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecticut<\/a> (nine years after his escape from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savannah,_Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Savannah, Georgia<\/a>), and many other striking images that invoke the life and times of William Grimes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List of Illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Preface<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgements<\/li>\n<li>Introduction by William L. Andrews<\/li>\n<li><em>Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chronology: the life and times of William Grimes<\/li>\n<li>Afterword by Regina E. Mason<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first fugitive slave narrative in American history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,8,17,6940,20],"tags":[2724,3192,22671,342,22672,22673,896,22670,895],"class_list":["post-45177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-connecticut","tag-georgia","tag-new-haven","tag-oxford-university-press","tag-regina-e-mason","tag-regina-mason","tag-william-andrews","tag-william-grimes","tag-william-l-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53624,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45177\/revisions\/53624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}