Antebellum Slave Narratives by Jermaine O Archer
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.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780415990271 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415990270 |
| Title | Antebellum Slave Narratives |
| Author | Jermaine O Archer |
| Series | Studies In American Popular History And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2008-12-22 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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