To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865University of Illinois Press, 1 juin 1986 - 353 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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... jeremiad . This genre differs from that which Wilson J. Moses has labeled the black jeremiad in one crucial sense : while the latter was preoccupied with America's impending doom because of its racial injustices , the American jeremiad ...
... jeremiad . This genre differs from that which Wilson J. Moses has labeled the black jeremiad in one crucial sense : while the latter was preoccupied with America's impending doom because of its racial injustices , the American jeremiad ...
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... jeremiad to distinguish between true and false Ameri- canism and Christianity . He celebrates the national dream by concluding his story with a contrast between the thriving seacoast town of New Bed- ford , Massachusetts - where he was ...
... jeremiad to distinguish between true and false Ameri- canism and Christianity . He celebrates the national dream by concluding his story with a contrast between the thriving seacoast town of New Bed- ford , Massachusetts - where he was ...
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... jeremiad provided a structure for Douglass's vision of America that was both empowering and limiting at the same time . The jeremiad gave the ex - slave literary license to excoriate the South pretty much as he pleased so long as the ...
... jeremiad provided a structure for Douglass's vision of America that was both empowering and limiting at the same time . The jeremiad gave the ex - slave literary license to excoriate the South pretty much as he pleased so long as the ...
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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 |
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