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Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published, together they form the basis for all subsequent African America literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives".They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hair-breadth escapes, slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders, sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write, a...