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 thro

Cover -- Contents -- A Re-Introduction to Lewis Clarke, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Hero -- FACSIMILE OF THE NARRATIVE BY LEWIS CLARKE -- PREFACE. -- NARR

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and storie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.