To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865To 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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... Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24. Finally, I thank my wife Charron, who in some ways has always understood better than I have what this book is all about. A widespread antislavery emblem, ...
... Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24. Finally, I thank my wife Charron, who in some ways has always understood better than I have what this book is all about. A widespread antislavery emblem, ...
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During the first half of this century of evolution, most AfroAmerican autobiography addressed itself, directly or indirectly, to the proof of two propositions: (1) that the slave was, as the inscription of a famous antislavery medallion ...
During the first half of this century of evolution, most AfroAmerican autobiography addressed itself, directly or indirectly, to the proof of two propositions: (1) that the slave was, as the inscription of a famous antislavery medallion ...
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... especially when a leader in the American Anti-Slavery Society warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North: “Simplehearted and truthful, as these fugitives appeared to be, you must recollect that they are slaves — and ...
... especially when a leader in the American Anti-Slavery Society warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North: “Simplehearted and truthful, as these fugitives appeared to be, you must recollect that they are slaves — and ...
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... Afro-American and his white sponsors, autobiography answered a felt need for a rhetorical mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other than those already occupied by pro- and antislavery polemics.
... Afro-American and his white sponsors, autobiography answered a felt need for a rhetorical mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other than those already occupied by pro- and antislavery polemics.
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... a mode of antislavery propaganda on the one hand or a means of self-advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other. When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery, or a lapse in his ...
... a mode of antislavery propaganda on the one hand or a means of self-advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other. When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery, or a lapse in his ...
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Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictAndrews describes and analyzes many autobiographies here, but his primary focus is on "slave narratives'' by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (a.k.a. Linda Brent), and J. D. Green. He convincingly ... Consulter l'avis complet
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| Titre | To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 |
| Auteur | William L. Andrews |
| Éditeur | University of Illinois Press, 2022 |
| ISBN | 0252054636, 9780252054631 |
| Longueur | 368 pages |
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