How Class Shaped Which Enslaved People Became Free

'The slave narrative was the first form of literature indigenous to the United States. William L. Andrews analyzed more than 60 slave narratives published between 1840 and 1865 for his latest book, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 (Oxford University Press/2019).' -- The State of Things on WUNC