Slave narratives, then and now [audio 17min]

Author David Reynolds talks about the manuscript written by former slave, Harriet Jacobs. Also, Mende Nazer tells her personal story of slavery. As a child, she was abducted from her village in Sudan. Guests: David Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of English, Baruch College, and author of John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Mende Nazer, abducted as a child from her village in Sudan, sold into slavery, and kept hostage in Khartoum and London; and author of memoir Slave along with Damien Lewis (Public Affairs, January 6, 2004).