Buch(gedruckt)2022

Before Equiano: a prehistory of the North American slave narrative

Verfügbarkeit an Ihrem Standort wird überprüft

Dieses Buch ist auch in Ihrer Bibliothek verfügbar:

Abstract

"In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the black African experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation"--

Verfügbarkeit

Weitere Versionen:

Buch(elektronisch)#12022

Before Equiano: a prehistory of the North American slave narrative

Hutchins, Zachary McLeod

Introduction. Slavery and the Newspaper: A Foreign Affair -- Sewall's Secret: The Selling of More than Two Dozen Black Africans -- Daniel and the Scotts: The Serialized Stories of Serial Runaways -- Royalty Enslaved: Of Princes, Pretenders, and Politics -- Fighting for, and against, the English: Briton Hammon and the Power of Black Africans' Allegiance -- Narratives of Slavery and the Stamp Act: Dickinson and Crèvecoeur Debate the Racial Limits of a Genre -- Conclusion. After Equiano: The Medium and the Message.

init.form.title.accessOptions