DSST Civil War and Reconstruction

Answer: B - While John Brown was an abolitionist, he was not a slave and therefore could not contribute to the genre of slave narratives. The other authors, with the exception of Harriet Tubman, wrote autobiographies that were widely published in their lifetimes. Tubman did not writer her autobiography, but she authorized Sarah H. Bradford to write her story, and Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman was published in 1869.Slave narratives became a powerful tool in the abolitionist movement since they related the atrocities of slavery through individual stories.