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Life of William Grimes

The Runaway Slave. Written by Himself.
1825

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Collage of Enslaved people, a memoir by William Grimes, and photo of John Quincy Adams.
Biography

The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President

What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding.
by Regina E. Mason via The Atlantic
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