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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In a famous passage in his Narrative of 1845, Frederick Douglass spoke of reading as the way he began to define himself via defiance of his master. For the boy Frederick to continue to study reading after being forbidden to do so by his ...
In a famous passage in his Narrative of 1845, Frederick Douglass spoke of reading as the way he began to define himself via defiance of his master. For the boy Frederick to continue to study reading after being forbidden to do so by his ...
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Douglass exclaims as he describes the valuation and division of the property of his deceased master, Captain Aaron Anthony of Talbot County, Maryland, in October 1827. Men and women, young and old, married and single; ...
Douglass exclaims as he describes the valuation and division of the property of his deceased master, Captain Aaron Anthony of Talbot County, Maryland, in October 1827. Men and women, young and old, married and single; ...
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... years before Hammon's narrative there are records describing the efforts of one “Adam Negro” to win his freedom from his Boston master via petitions to the Superior Court of the colony. These materials, which have been lumped ...
... years before Hammon's narrative there are records describing the efforts of one “Adam Negro” to win his freedom from his Boston master via petitions to the Superior Court of the colony. These materials, which have been lumped ...
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You may leave this plantation at any time,” the speech-act of freeing the slave would still not become operative, even though the master has the power and intention of manumission. This is because the convention of manumission requires ...
You may leave this plantation at any time,” the speech-act of freeing the slave would still not become operative, even though the master has the power and intention of manumission. This is because the convention of manumission requires ...
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A master may promise to free his slave, thereby giving an utterance propositional content, which in turn gives it a certain ... or if he knows he will be automatically freed at a certain time regardless of his master's verbal promise, ...
A master may promise to free his slave, thereby giving an utterance propositional content, which in turn gives it a certain ... or if he knows he will be automatically freed at a certain time regardless of his master's verbal promise, ...
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To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1769-1865
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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