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shanaetheflyest's review
3.0
I'm giving Mrs. Lee's narrative 3 stars because I found the autobiography very very very redundant, though it was a short and insightful read. It was definitely a bit more boring for me. This is a spiritual autobiography and Lee writes to prove that she is equally as worthy of God's salvation as whites. The autobiography reads like propaganda text. I would like to know just how much of the narrative was written by some white abolitionist. Nonetheless, Jarena Lee's autobiography is an often cited but hardly ever researched work that is important to understanding the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the ex-slave narratives most students know about, like those by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs.
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