{"product_id":"first-person-past-american-autobiographies-volume-1-isbn-9781881089070","title":"First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe novelist William Dean Howells described autobiography as the most democratic of American literary genres. Autobiography has offered a voice to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and others whose writings have often been excluded from the literary canon. The men and women presented here observed, shaped, or participated in many of the most exciting and important events of American history. First Person Past lets them speak for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the hundreds of American autobiographies, the editors have chosen twelve for each of Volumes I and II of \u003ci\u003eFirst Person Past\u003c\/i\u003e because they are interesting history and good literature. Their literary and historical virtues have been preserved as edited for inclusion in each volume.\u003c\/p\u003e  Introduction. \u003cp\u003eAnne Bradstreet: \"To My Dear Children\" (1650).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Ashbridge: Some Account of the Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge (1774).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlaudah Equiano: The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African Written by Himself (1789).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin: Autobiography (1817).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavy Crockett: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, Written by Himself (1834).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Hawk: Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk (1833).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarriet H. Robinson: Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (1898).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (1845).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Himself (1861).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cady Stanton: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 (1898).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUlysses S. Grant: The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885-1886).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTunis Gulic Campbell: Sufferings of the Rev. T. G. Campbell and His Family, in Georgia (1877).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRussell Duncan\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarian Morton\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at John Carroll University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989216379109,"sku":"NP9781881089070","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781881089070.jpg?v=1761783244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/first-person-past-american-autobiographies-volume-1-isbn-9781881089070","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}