So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives. | |
In order for people to believe the events in the narratives. | |
So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured. | |
So the author could get paid. |
Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?