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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... especially when a leader in the American Anti - Slavery Society warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North : “ Simple - hearted and truthful , as these fugitives appeared to be , you must recollect that they are slaves ...
... especially when a leader in the American Anti - Slavery Society warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North : “ Simple - hearted and truthful , as these fugitives appeared to be , you must recollect that they are slaves ...
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Almost simultaneously with the publication of White's narrative appeared The Life , History , and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea , the African Preacher ( c . 1811 ) .25 In the opening pages of Jea's dictated story ...
Almost simultaneously with the publication of White's narrative appeared The Life , History , and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea , the African Preacher ( c . 1811 ) .25 In the opening pages of Jea's dictated story ...
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Because Grimes did not subscribe to these myths , it is not surprising that he had to publish his story on his own and that the antislavery movement ignored it both when it first appeared and in 1855 , when Grimes reprinted a somewhat ...
Because Grimes did not subscribe to these myths , it is not surprising that he had to publish his story on his own and that the antislavery movement ignored it both when it first appeared and in 1855 , when Grimes reprinted a somewhat ...
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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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Voices of the First Fifty Years 17601810 | 32 |
Experiments in Two Modes 181040 | 61 |
Green Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs | 205 |
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| Titre | To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 |
| Auteur | William L. Andrews |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | University of Illinois Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0252012224, 9780252012228 |
| Longueur | 353 pages |
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