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Before Equiano
Zachary McLeod Hutchins
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the black African experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable, race-based system of domestic oppression.
Kundenbewertungen
colonial American newspapers and slavery, just war theory of slavery, The Selling of Joseph, John Dickinson, transatlantic slave trade, Boston News-Letter, slavery and foreign relations, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, Samuel Sewall, Black Peter, William Ansah Sessarakoo, slave-for-sale advertisements, Massachusetts Quakers, Olaudah Equiano, Barbary captivity narratives, Boston Evening-Post, J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur, runaway slave advertisements, slavery in Massachusetts, Briton Hammon, North American slave narrative, enslaved royalty, slavery as metaphor, slavery in the Atlantic World, Elizabeth Colson, literacy of slaves, New York arson attacks of 1741, Peter Fleet, unfreedom in early America, Phillis Wheatley Peters