Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis ClarkeLewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well regarded abolitionist lecturer throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and copyrighted. During the 1840s he lived in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Aaron and Mary Safford, where he encountered Mary's stepsister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with Frederick