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William L. Andrews (editor) and
Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Basic Civitas Books
Publication date
October 1, 1998
Pages
439
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781887178983
ISBN-10
1887178988
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$26.00
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | Black Cosmopolitanism | The Salem Witch Hunt | The Black Atlantic | Stono | Women's Indian Captivity Narratives | Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts | The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Collects important eighteenth century slave narratives
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description:
In the eighteenth century, a small group of black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves into history. The battle lines were clearâliteracy stood as the ultimate measure of humanity to the white arbiters of Western culture. If blacks could succeed in this sphere, they would prove that African and European humanity were inseparable. Without a literary record, blacks seemed predestined for slavery.The small but dedicated groupânow known as the Black Atlantic writersâwho stepped forward to meet this challenge published their autobiographies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They not only defied the popular opinion of the time that blacks were unfit for letters, but inaugurated the Black American and Black British literary traditions.While slave narratives are often excerpted and anthologized, they are rarely collected in their entirety. Pioneers of the Black Atlantic is the first anthology to include the complete texts of the five most important and influential narratives of the eighteenth century. Included here are the writings of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and John Jea.Their stories, resonant still in our racially divided world, are landmarks in the history of autobiography and human rights.
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Paperback
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from Basic Civitas Books (October 1, 1998)
9781887178983 | details & prices | 439 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Collects important eighteenth century slave narratives
About: Collects important eighteenth century slave narratives
from Diane Pub Co (April 1, 1998)
9780756778644 | details & prices | 439 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $22.00
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