... called the autobiographical pact which committed the author to tell his life story in a spirit of sincerity. However, the prefaces also implicitly place black narratives under the control of white editors. For this reason, in all of his subsequent autobiographies, Douglass replaced Garrison and Phillips' endorsements with introductions by prominent black scholars. So you have the title, the signature, the photograph and the preface which ... declared "Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit." (94-5) but this was not going to last long. Thus, in the famo...

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