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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative - Hutchins, Zachary McLeod
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"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 ...

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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative 2022, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469671543

Trade paperback

Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative 2022, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469671536

Hardcover