Editing Slave narrative (section)

=== North American slave narratives as travel literature ===
Slave narratives inherently involved travel and form a significant type of [[Travel literature|travel writing]]. As John Cox says in ''Traveling South'', "travel was a necessary prelude to the publication of a narrative by a slave, for slavery could not be simultaneously experienced and written." Where many travel narratives are written by privileged travelers, slave narratives show people traveling despite significant [[Slave codes|legal barriers]] to their actions, and in this way are a distinct and essential element in how travel narratives formed the American character.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/11495|title=Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity|last=Cox|first=John D.|date=2005|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820330860|pages=64–66|language=en}}</ref>