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First-known Prison Narrative by an African-American Writer Discovered at Yale's Beinecke Library

First-known Prison Narrative by an African–American Writer Discovered at Yale's Beinecke Library

Scholarly detective work has revealed that an 1858 manuscript, housed at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is the earliest-known prison memoir written by an African American.

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