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Genius in bondage literature of the early Black Atlantic

Title
Genius in bondage [electronic resource] : literature of the early Black Atlantic / edited by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould.
Publication
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Carretta, Vincent.
  • Gould, Philip, 1960-
Description
1 online resource (272 p.) : ill., map.
Uniform Title
Genius in bondage (Online)
Subject
  • Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797
  • Hammon, Briton
  • Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780 > Criticism and interpretation
  • African literature (English) > History and criticism
  • English literature > Black authors > History and criticism
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Enslaved persons' writings, English > History and criticism
  • Africans > Foreign countries > Historiography
  • Slavery in literature
  • Black people in literature
  • English-speaking countries > Intellectual life > 18th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Betrayed by some of my own complexion : Cugoano, abolition, and the contemporary language of racialism / Roxanne Wheeler -- Race, redemption, and captivity in the narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant / Karen A. Weyler -- Being a man : Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho / Felcity A. Nussbaum -- Volatile subjects : the history of Mary Prince / Gillian Whitlock -- Letters of the old Calibar slave trade, 1760-1789 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Remarkable liberty : language and identity in eighteenth-century Black autobiography / Philip Gould -- Property of author : Olaudah Equiano's place in the history of the book / Vincent Carretta -- Surprizing deliverance? : slavery and freedom, language, and identity in the narrative of Briton Hammon, a Negro man / Robert Desrochers, Jr. -- On her own footing : Phillis Wheatley in freedom / Frank Shuffelton -- Thou hast the holy word : Jupiter Hammon's "regards" to Phillis Wheatley / Rosemary Fithian Guruswamy -- Ignatius Sancho's letters : sentimental libertinism and the politics of form / Markman Ellis -- Benjamin Banneker's revision of Thomas Jefferson : conscience versus science in the early American antislavery debate / William L. Andrews -- Fifth of July : Nathaniel Paul and the construction of Black nationalism / Robert S. Levine.
LCCN
2001002581
OCLC
ssj0001402043
Title
Genius in bondage [electronic resource] : literature of the early Black Atlantic / edited by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould.
Imprint
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Carretta, Vincent.
Gould, Philip, 1960-
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