A01=Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Author_Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
Briton Hammon
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colonial American newspapers and slavery
enslaved royalty
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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
John Dickinson
just war theory of slavery
Massachusetts Quakers
New York arson attacks of 1741
North American slave narrative
Olaudah Equiano
Phillis Wheatley Peters
runaway slave advertisements
Samuel Sewall
slave-for-sale advertisements
slavery as metaphor
slavery in Massachusetts
transatlantic slave trade
William Ansah Sessarakoo
Product details
- ISBN 9781469671543
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable, race-based system of domestic oppression.
Zachary Hutchins is associate professor of English at Colorado State University and co-editor of The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader.
