Abstract
William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. xii + 353 pp. Illus. William L. Andrews, ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. x + 245 pp. R.J.M. Blackett. Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xviii + 417 pp. Lamont D. Thomas. Rise to Be A People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. xv + 187 pp. "When we get a little farther away from the conflict," Frederick Douglass wrote at the end of his long, full life, some brave and truth-loving man, with all the facts before him . . .will gather from here and there the scattered fragments, . . . and give to those who shall come after us an impartial history of this grandest moral conflict of the century. [For] truth is patient and time is just.
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