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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... master rhetoricians on the antislavery lecture circuit.2 In the first 100 years of its existence , Afro - American autobiography was a genre chiefly distinguished by its rhetorical aims . During the first half of this century of ...
... master rhetoricians on the antislavery lecture circuit.2 In the first 100 years of its existence , Afro - American autobiography was a genre chiefly distinguished by its rhetorical aims . During the first half of this century of ...
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... master . For the boy Frederick to continue to study reading after being forbidden to do so by his Baltimore master , Hugh Auld , was to initiate a certain kind of " artistic Primal scene , " as Bloom might term it , one emanating from ...
... master . For the boy Frederick to continue to study reading after being forbidden to do so by his Baltimore master , Hugh Auld , was to initiate a certain kind of " artistic Primal scene , " as Bloom might term it , one emanating from ...
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... master , Captain Aaron Anthony of Talbot County , Maryland , in October 1827 . Men and women , young and old , married and single ; moral and intellectual beings , in open contempt of their humanity , leveled at a blow with horses ...
... master , Captain Aaron Anthony of Talbot County , Maryland , in October 1827 . Men and women , young and old , married and single ; moral and intellectual beings , in open contempt of their humanity , leveled at a blow with horses ...
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... master via petitions to the Superior Court of the colony . These materials , which have been lumped together under the title of " Adam Negro's Tryall , " may be judged " a pre- cursor of the slave narratives , " 36 but they cannot be ...
... master via petitions to the Superior Court of the colony . These materials , which have been lumped together under the title of " Adam Negro's Tryall , " may be judged " a pre- cursor of the slave narratives , " 36 but they cannot be ...
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... master has the power and intention of manumission . This is because the con- vention of manumission requires a procedure entailing more than the speech - act of granting a slave his freedom . Without other kinds of speech and writing ...
... master has the power and intention of manumission . This is because the con- vention of manumission requires a procedure entailing more than the speech - act of granting a slave his freedom . Without other kinds of speech and writing ...
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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