The Atlantic A copy of William Grimes’s memoir—the first known American fugitive-slave narrative—is addressed to John Quincy Adams. Discovering this “moved me in ways I hadn’t anticipated,” Regina E. Mason, Grimes’s third-great granddaughter, writes
A copy of William Grimes’s memoir—the first known American fugitive-slave narrative—is addressed to John Quincy Adams. Discovering this “moved me in ways I hadn’t anticipated,” Regina E. Mason, Grimes’s third-great granddaughter, writes