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Fugitive slaves --- Slavery --- Esclaves fugitifs --- Esclavage --- History. --- History. --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Estévez, Francisco,
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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
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"Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements." "Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers." "Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time."--Jacket.
African Americans --- Autobiography --- American literature --- Antislavery movements --- African Americans --- African American authors --- Fugitive slaves --- Historiography --- African American authors --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- Brown, William Wells, --- Brown, William Wells, --- Brown, William Wells, --- Writing skill. --- Travel.
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In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important. In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War, the memory of the past faded and turned romantic--slaves became quaint, owners kindly, and the war itself a noble struggle for the Union. Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Havilan
Abolitionists --- African American abolitionists --- Fugitive slaves --- Autobiography. --- Autobiography --- Slaves --- Antislavery movements --- African Americans --- Memory --- African American authors. --- Emancipation --- History --- Civil rights --- Social aspects --- United States --- Causes. --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Retention (Psychology) --- Slavery --- Afro-American authors --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Biography as a literary form --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Enslaved persons
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