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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Portions of Chapter 2 first appeared in “The First Fifty Years of the Slave Narrative, 1760–1810,” in John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24.
Portions of Chapter 2 first appeared in “The First Fifty Years of the Slave Narrative, 1760–1810,” in John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24.
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1 It took “the interested party” of AfroAmerican autobiography almost fifty years after the initial appearance of the genre in 1760 to begin to prove that no one could do justice to himself better than himself. From these beginnings to ...
1 It took “the interested party” of AfroAmerican autobiography almost fifty years after the initial appearance of the genre in 1760 to begin to prove that no one could do justice to himself better than himself. From these beginnings to ...
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... to invent devices and strategies that would endow their stories with the appearance of authenticity. ... warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North: “Simplehearted and truthful, as these fugitives appeared to be, ...
... to invent devices and strategies that would endow their stories with the appearance of authenticity. ... warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North: “Simplehearted and truthful, as these fugitives appeared to be, ...
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Ever direr and more explicit warnings of the wrath to be visited on southern white pharaohs appeared in slave narratives composed after the rise of evangelical Garrisonian abolitionism. Some autobiographers, like Leonard Black in 1847, ...
Ever direr and more explicit warnings of the wrath to be visited on southern white pharaohs appeared in slave narratives composed after the rise of evangelical Garrisonian abolitionism. Some autobiographers, like Leonard Black in 1847, ...
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Problems of authenticity and interpretation inevitably arise when one considers the large number of dictated, edited, and ghostwritten narratives that appeared under the ostensible authorship of blacks during the period 1760 to 1865.
Problems of authenticity and interpretation inevitably arise when one considers the large number of dictated, edited, and ghostwritten narratives that appeared under the ostensible authorship of blacks during the period 1760 to 1865.
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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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