I told him I was ready to die
Suzanne Scafe, 16 February 1989
Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckley.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,0 19 505259 5 Show More
by Elizabeth Keckley.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke
by Brenda Stevenson.
Oxford, 609 pp., £22.50, July 1988,0 19 505238 2 Show More
by Brenda Stevenson.
Oxford, 609 pp., £22.50, July 1988,
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Secole in Many Lands
by Mary Secole.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,0 19 505249 8 Show More
by Mary Secole.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,
“... hopeful, more cheerful than I do now.’ First published in 1857, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Mary Secole in Many Lands went into its second printing within 12 months. When it was reissued in Britain in 1984 by the Falling Wall Press it was again greeted with enthusiasm. In part, this has to do with Mrs Secole’s ... ”