Commentaires / Historiographie:

"the style … is clearly Wilson's own" (Jackson, AH, 151) / Wilson "composed the book in his own style …faithful … to the facts… as well as Northup's sentiments" (Taylor, IW2, 160) - "authentic" (Blassingame, Using, 83) - "David Wilson, the writer of [Solomon Northup's narrative]...." + "transcribed narratives... more authentic and reflective of the narrator's thought" (Andrews, TT, 21) - "'Written by himself' can be accepted literally as the label for the slave narratives of …Solomon Northup" (Starling, TS, 247) - "David Wilson helped Solomon Northup edit his narrative, but Northup, who was literate, was undoubtedly its author" (Sinha, SC, 440). Il a écrit: Blassingame non (Using, 83) / Roy non (RD, 29) / Andrews non (TT, 21) / Starling oui (TS, 247) / Nichols oui (MT, 28) / Stepto non (IR, 232)