Everybody Loves Slavery

While preparing for a Slave Narrative course I will be teaching next semester, I came across a wealth of primary materials on the web, things that just didn't exist when I was a student. Did you know that every North American slave narrative can be found in full at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill's Documenting the American South?

To hear the voices of the actual slaves, give a listen to the University of Virginia's site. Or just go to the Library of Congress for its collection.

As a writer, I used to hope that after I am gone my books might still lived on in print. Now I hope that someday, long after the meat has decayed off my bones, people will continue to download my text into their living rooms.