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While this is not quite a slave narrative, "The Confessions of Nat Turner" is testimony of one of the most famous American slaves (although the case can be made that he had already freed himself). While most slave narratives were weaponized in the anti-slavery struggle, this document was weaponized to justify strengthening the institution of slavery in the Antebellum South.
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 39: Jerry Is a Man
Episode 591: Mark Twain: No 44: Mysterious Stranger
Episode 590: Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 38: Rocket Ship Galileo (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 37: Rocket Ship Galileo (Part 1)
Episode 589: Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Abroad
Episode 588: Mark Twain: The American Claimant
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 36: Free Men
Episode 587: Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner: The Gilded Age (Part 4)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 35: A Bathroom of Her Own
Episode 587:Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner: The Gilded Age (Part 3)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 34: Waldo
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 33: My Object All Sublime and Pied Piper (1942)
Episode 585: Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner: The Gilded Age (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 32: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Episode 584: Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner: The Gilded Age (Part 1)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 31: Goldish Bowl
Episode 583: Mark Twain: Following the Equator
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 30: Beyond this Horizon (Part 2)
Episode 582: Mark Twain: Following the Equator (Part 3)
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