The author discusses the significance of folklore in slave narratives. Slave narratives, despite their historic purpose in revealing the abuses of the slavery system, now function as psychological insights into the slave narrator's attempts at self-identification.
To find chronicles of slave culture, one would think one need only turn to those widely read testaments of slavery--the slave narratives. Yet, the focus dictated by the original and still present value judgments framing these ...
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