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To tell a free story : the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1760-1865

The author discusses the writings of Richard Allen, Solomon Bayley, Henry Bibb, Henry Box Brown, John Brown, Leonard Black, William Wells Brown, Lewis Clarke, William Craft, Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, Olaudah Equiano, Moses Grandy, Jacob D. Green, William Grimes, James A.U. Gronniosaw, Briton Hammon, Josiah Henson, Harriet Jacobs, John Jea, Lunsford Lane, Jarena Lee, John Marrant, Solomon Northrup, James W. Pennington, James Robert, Moses Roper, Venture Smith, Austin Steward, Nat Turner, Samuel R. Ward, Booker T. Washington, James Watkins, George White, James Williams, and others
eBook, English, ©1986
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1986
Biography
1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages) : illustrations
9780252054631, 0252054636
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The first century of Afro-American autobiography : notes toward a definition of a genre
Voices of the first fifty years, 1760-1810
Experiments in two modes, 1810-40
The performance of slave narrative in the 1840s
The uses of marginality, 1850-65
Culmination of a century : the autobiographies of J.D. Green, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs
"Free at last" : from discourse to dialogue in the novelized autobiography
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2020