{"id":63116,"date":"2022-02-17T02:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63116"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:26:38","slug":"a-narrative-of-the-adventures-and-escape-of-moses-roper-from-american-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63116","title":{"rendered":"A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nSeptember 2011 (originally published in 1840)
\n50 pages
\n6 x 9, 4 illustrations
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9
\neBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6<\/p>\n

Moses Roper<\/strong><\/a> (c1815-1891)<\/p>\n

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The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper<\/em> can be read as an extended autobiographical meditation on the meaning of race in antebellum America<\/a>. First published in England<\/a>, the text documents the life of Moses Roper, beginning with his birth in North Carolina<\/a> and chronicling his travels through South Carolina<\/a>, Georgia<\/a>, and Florida<\/a>. Roper was able to obtain employment on a schooner<\/a> named The Fox, and in 1834 he made his way to freedom aboard the vessel. Once in Boston<\/a>, he was quickly recruited as a signatory to the constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society<\/a> (AASS), but he sailed to England the next year. Roper’s narrative is especially interesting because although it was published after Frederick Douglass’s<\/a> much-heralded 1845 Narrative<\/em><\/a>, Roper actually preceded Douglass in his involvement in AASS as well as in his travel to the United Kingdom<\/a>. This text is often cited by literary scholars because of its length, its extensive detail, and its unforgiving portrayal of enslaved life in the “land of the free.”<\/p>\n

Also, available to read via Documenting the American South<\/a> (DocSouth) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891)   The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,8,17,6940,10,20],"tags":[3707,3192,33042,1449,667],"class_list":["post-63116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-uk","category-usa","tag-florida","tag-georgia","tag-moses-roper","tag-south-carolina","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63116","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=63116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63219,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63116\/revisions\/63219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}