Antebellum Slave Narratives

Informationen zum Autor Jermaine Archer is an Assistant Professor of History in the American Studies Department at SUNY, College at Old Westbury. His essay "Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era" recently appeared in Michael Gomez ed., Diasporic Africa. He has also contributed essays on the significance of dreams in the African-American folk tradition and on the scholarship and activism of George P. Rawick in the Encyclopedia of African-American Folklore. Klappentext This book examines the slave narratives of key members of the abolitionist movement - Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs - revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of their listening and reading audiences. Zusammenfassung This book examines the slave narratives of key members of the abolitionist movement – Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs – revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of their listening and reading audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. "Speaking Guinea and a Mixture of Everything Else": The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass Re-visited 2. William Wells Brown: Subtle Whispers of Slave Culture, Pan-Africanism & Insurgency 3. "Moses Is Got De Charm": Harriet Tubman’s Mosaic Persona 4. Harriet Jacobs: A Larger Discussion of the John Kuner Parade and Other Cultural Recollections 5. Discourse on the Slave Narrative and a New Interpretation on Black Anti-Slavery Ideology

Product details

• Authors: Jermaine O. Archer, Jermaine O. (Suny Archer, Archer Jermaine, Archer Jermaine O.
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2008
• EAN: 9780415990271
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99027-1
• Series: Studies in American Popular Hi; Studies in American Popular History and Culture; Studies in American Popular History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, African History, History of the Americas, The Americas, History and Archaeology