2007
First Published
4.08
Average Rating
364
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The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series. It contains: -Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1848) -Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849) -Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) -Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860)
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Author
Daphne A. Brooks
Author · 4 books
Daphne A. Brooks is author of Jeff Buckley’s Grace and Bodies in Dissent, winner of the Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American performance studies. The William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, Brooks has written liner notes to accompany the recordings of Aretha Franklin, Tammi Terrell, and Prince, as well as stories for the New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Pitchfork.
