To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865University of Illinois Press, 17 oct. 2022 - 368 pages To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach. |
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... Abolitionist defenders of the Negro would not deny that the ex-slave had been morally “degraded” by slavery; they insisted, nevertheless, that he could be elevated from his “inferior” condition.5 But how could readers of slave ...
... Abolitionist defenders of the Negro would not deny that the ex-slave had been morally “degraded” by slavery; they insisted, nevertheless, that he could be elevated from his “inferior” condition.5 But how could readers of slave ...
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... Abolitionist de- fenders of the Negro would not deny that the ex - slave had been morally " degraded " by slavery ; they insisted , nevertheless , that he could be ele- vated from his " inferior " condition . " But how could readers of ...
... Abolitionist de- fenders of the Negro would not deny that the ex - slave had been morally " degraded " by slavery ; they insisted , nevertheless , that he could be ele- vated from his " inferior " condition . " But how could readers of ...
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... abolitionist con- troversy in the 1840s ; " reason is met by sophistry ; but narratives of slaves go right to the hearts of men . " " Reaching " the hearts of men " was the rhetorical aim of practically all black autobiography in the ...
... abolitionist con- troversy in the 1840s ; " reason is met by sophistry ; but narratives of slaves go right to the hearts of men . " " Reaching " the hearts of men " was the rhetorical aim of practically all black autobiography in the ...
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... abolitionist sponsors that their skeptical public would believe nothing but documentable facts in a slave narrative . From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause , abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black ...
... abolitionist sponsors that their skeptical public would believe nothing but documentable facts in a slave narrative . From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause , abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black ...
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... abolitionist propaganda , strong in righteous indignation but weak in factual substance . In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery could be fully understood apart from the ...
... abolitionist propaganda , strong in righteous indignation but weak in factual substance . In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery could be fully understood apart from the ...
Table des matières
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Voices of the First Fifty Years 17601810 | 32 |
Experiments in Two Modes 181040 | 61 |
The Performance of Slave Narrative in the 1840s | 97 |
The Uses of Marginality 185065 | 167 |
Culmination of a Century The Autobiographies of J D Green Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs | 205 |
Free at Last From Discourse to Dialogue in the Novelized Autobiography | 265 |
Notes | 293 |
Annotated Bibliography of AfroAmerican Autobiography 17601865 | 333 |
Annotated Bibliography of AfroAmerican Biography 17601865 | 343 |
Index | 349 |
Note on the Author | |
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