![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning with the 1770 autobiography A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, the genre grew into a recognized form, with standardized structural elements that have been described in detail by scholars like James Olney. The language choices those men and women made when publishing their narratives were exponentially more fraught and considered than those we make describing them, but as with most writing, audience perception and reception played a key role.Įlizabeth Keckley’s memoir, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House was one of the latest additions to the literary genre known as the slave narrative. While archivists are in the midst of discussing slavery in our collections, we are often in the meta-process of describing people’s descriptions of their own enslavement. ![]()
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