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Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke by Lewis Garrard Clark ; a facsimile edition with an introduction by Carver Clark Gayton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Lewis Garrard, 1812-1897.
- Series:
- V. Ethel Willis White Books
- V Ethel Willis White Books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clarke, Lewis Garrard, 1812-1897.
- Clarke, Lewis Garrard.
- Enslaved persons--Kentucky--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Slavery--Kentucky.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- Facsimile ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 Frederick Douglass, Lewis Tappan, Gerrit Smith, Josiah Henson, John Brown, Lydia Child, and Martin Delaney. His experiences are evident in Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, and Stowe identified him as the prototype for the book's rebellious character George Harris.This facsimile edition of Clarke's book is introduced by his great grandson, Carver Clark Gayton, who has served as director of Affirmative Action Programs at the University of Washington; corporate director of educational relations and training for the Boeing Company; lecturer at the Evans School of Public Administration, University of Washington; and executive director of the Northwest African American Museum. He lives in Seattle.A V Ethel Willis White Book
- Contents:
- A re-introduction to Lewis Clarke, Harriet Beecher Stowe's forgotten hero / by Carver Clark Gayton
- Facsimile of the narrative by Lewis Clarke
- Acknowledgments
- Further reading / complied by Carver Clark Gayton.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295997612
- 0295997613
- OCLC:
- 957436631
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