Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa by Archer, Jermaine O.

Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415990271)

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Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa by Archer, Jermaine O.

Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

$200.00
Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa by Archer, Jermaine O.

Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Jermaine O. Archer
ISBN-10: 0415990270
ISBN-13: 9780415990271
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2008
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 57
By Jermaine O. Archer
By Jermaine O. Archer
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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.

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