Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke

by Lewis Clarke

Book Overview

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 throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and copyrighted.

During the 1840s he lived in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Aaron and Mary Safford, where he encountered Mary's stepsister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029599200X
• ISBN13: 9780295992006
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher