| Description |
272 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Betrayed by some of my own complexion : Cugoano, abolition, and the contemporary language of racialism / Roxanne Wheeler -- Race, redemption, and captivity in the narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant / Karen A. Weyler -- Being a man : Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Volatile subjects : The history of Mary Prince / Gillian Whitlock -- Letters of the old Calibar slave trade, 1760-1789 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Remarkable liberty : language and identity in eighteenth-century Black autobiography / Philip Gould -- Property of author : Olaudah Equiano's place in the history of the book / Vincent Carretta -- Surprizing deliverance? : slavery and freedom, language, and identity in the narrative of Briton Hammon, a Negro man / Robert Desrochers, Jr. -- On her own footing : Phillis Wheatley in freedom / Frank Shuffelton -- Thou hast the holy word : Jupiter Hammon's "regards" to Phillis Wheatley / Rosemary Fithian Guruswamy -- Ignatius Sancho's letters : sentimental libertinism and the politics of form / Markman Ellis -- Benjamin Banneker's revision of Thomas Jefferson : conscience versus science in the early American antislavery debate / William L. Andrews -- Fifth of July : Nathaniel Paul and the construction of Black nationalism / Robert S. Levine. |
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African literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism.
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Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797. Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
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Hammon, Briton. Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprising deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man.
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Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Enslaved persons' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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Africans -- Foreign countries -- Historiography.
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Slavery in literature.
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Black people in literature.
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| Added Author |
Carretta, Vincent.
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Gould, Philip, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0813122031 (acid-free paper) |
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