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Genius in bondage : literature of the early Black Atlantic
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- Creator
- edited by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813159466, 0913122031, 9780813159461, 0813122031, 1322597324, 9780813122038
- OCLC
- ocm46918056, ocn903963319
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Betrayed by some of my own complexion : Cugoano, abolition, and the contemporary language of racialism / Roxanne Wheeler -- Race, redemption, and captivity in the narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant / Karen A. Weyler -- Being a man : Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Volatile subjects : the history of Mary Prince / Gillian Whitlock -- Letters of the old Calibar slave trade, 1760-1789 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Remarkable liberty : language and identity in eighteenth-century Black autobiography / Philip Gould -- Property of author : Olaudah Equiano's place in the history of the book / Vincent Carretta -- Surprizing deliverance? : slavery and freedom, language, and identity in the narrative of Briton Hammon, a Negro man / Robert Desrochers, Jr. -- On her own footing : Phillis Wheatley in freedom / Frank Shuffelton -- Thou hast the holy word : Jupiter Hammon's "regards" to Phillis Wheatley / Rosemary Fithian Guruswamy -- Ignatius Sancho's letters : sentimental libertinism and the politics of form / Markman Ellis -- Benjamin Banneker's revision of Thomas Jefferson : conscience versus science in the early American antislavery debate / William L. Andrews -- Fifth of July : Nathaniel Paul and the construction of Black nationalism / Robert S. Levine
Subjects
- Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797. Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
- Hammon, Briton. Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprising deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man.
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- African literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons' writings, English -- History and criticism.
- Africans -- Foreign countries -- Historiography.
- Slavery in literature.
- Black people in literature.