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At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave. Written by Himself., Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the 30,000 words preceding it. Whereas most of the writing published that year, in 1825, would likely hold little interest for readers in 2023, the main […]

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