William Sanders Scarborough's autobiography sounds like an improbably novel, but his true story is available because of the work of Michele Valerie Ronnick, associate professor of Greek and Latin at Wayne. She uncovered a typed manuscript of Scarborough's buried in an Ohio archive. Scarborough was born a slave, learned to read and write secretly and went on to become one of America's foremost scholars of classics and president of Wilberforce University. "…in those days it was dangerous both to teach and to receive instruction," wrote Scarborough, "The penalty for the instructor was fine and imprisonment, and for the instructed one severe corporal punishment." Ronnick edited the autobiography that was recently published by the Wayne State University Press.