Liberation historiography: African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861
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Main Author: Ernest, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2004
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-412) and index
The theater of history -- Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history -- Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history -- The assembly of history : orations and conventions -- Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American -- Press and the work of history -- Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-19th-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory. Here, John Ernest demonstrates that African Americans created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical and the political are inextricably connected
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 426 p.)
ISBN:080786353X
9780807863534

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