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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... resistance to oppression , Douglass suffers no dark nights of the soul , no wavering in his commitment to free- dom and self - fulfillment . He may try to include others in his plans for freedom , but ultimately he will take his chances ...
... resistance to oppression , Douglass suffers no dark nights of the soul , no wavering in his commitment to free- dom and self - fulfillment . He may try to include others in his plans for freedom , but ultimately he will take his chances ...
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... resistance , " was the only right and lasting way to combat the “ moral corruption " of slavery . “ We reject and ... resistance ! RESISTANCE ! " While he was convinced that it was preferable to " die freemen [ rather ] than live to be ...
... resistance , " was the only right and lasting way to combat the “ moral corruption " of slavery . “ We reject and ... resistance ! RESISTANCE ! " While he was convinced that it was preferable to " die freemen [ rather ] than live to be ...
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... resistance you had better make , you must decide by the circumstances that surround you , and according to the suggestion of expedience . " " Let it be ethical or expedient , the idea of the justifi- ability of overt , perhaps even ...
... resistance you had better make , you must decide by the circumstances that surround you , and according to the suggestion of expedience . " " Let it be ethical or expedient , the idea of the justifi- ability of overt , perhaps even ...
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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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