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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famous apostrophe to the sloops on the Chesapeake Bay delivered by Douglass while under the Covey regime.63 But in the state of revived manhood , implicitly defined as heroic resistance to oppression , Douglass suffers no dark nights of ...
famous apostrophe to the sloops on the Chesapeake Bay delivered by Douglass while under the Covey regime.63 But in the state of revived manhood , implicitly defined as heroic resistance to oppression , Douglass suffers no dark nights of ...
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On the heels of the Nat Turner insurrection , Garrisonian abolitionists took a pacifistic stand against violence and argued that “ moral purity , ” not “ physical resistance , ” was the only right and lasting way to combat the " moral ...
On the heels of the Nat Turner insurrection , Garrisonian abolitionists took a pacifistic stand against violence and argued that “ moral purity , ” not “ physical resistance , ” was the only right and lasting way to combat the " moral ...
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What kind of 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 justifiability of overt ...
What kind of 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 justifiability of overt ...
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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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