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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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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Nineteenth-century whites read slave narratives more to get a firsthand look at the institution of slavery than to become acquainted with an individual slave. Many ex-slaves were quite willing to accede to this expectation, ...
Nineteenth-century whites read slave narratives more to get a firsthand look at the institution of slavery than to become acquainted with an individual slave. Many ex-slaves were quite willing to accede to this expectation, ...
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Reconstructing their past lives required many ex-slaves to undergo a disquieting psychic immersion into their former selves as slaves. ... duplicity, and lack of Christian fortitude to which they fell prey during their time in slavery.
Reconstructing their past lives required many ex-slaves to undergo a disquieting psychic immersion into their former selves as slaves. ... duplicity, and lack of Christian fortitude to which they fell prey during their time in slavery.
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Rare was the autobiographer who did not apologize for his lack of facility with words and his inability to portray what he experienced in or how he felt about slavery. Other blacks lamented the inadequacy of language itself to represent ...
Rare was the autobiographer who did not apologize for his lack of facility with words and his inability to portray what he experienced in or how he felt about slavery. Other blacks lamented the inadequacy of language itself to represent ...
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The autobiographies of ex-slaves like Douglass and James W. C. Pennington indicate that the writing of their life ... Their voices rise in constant warnings to whites to beware of the inevitable judgment of God for the sin of slavery.
The autobiographies of ex-slaves like Douglass and James W. C. Pennington indicate that the writing of their life ... Their voices rise in constant warnings to whites to beware of the inevitable judgment of God for the sin of slavery.
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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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| 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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