Research Catalog

Title

Hearing enslaved voices : African and Indian slave testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848 / edited by Sophie White and Trevor Burnard.

Publication

• New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• White, Sophie
• Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme)

Description

viii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives-including the inner and spiritual lives-of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons' lived experience as expressed in their own words"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas; 14

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas.

Subject

• 1700-1899
• Slave narratives > North America > History and criticism
• Slavery > North America > History > 18th century
• Slavery > North America > History > 19th century
• African Americans > History
• Indians of North America > History
• African Americans
• Indians of North America
• Slave narratives
• Slavery
• North America

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introductions : slave narratives in British and French America, 1700-1848 / Trevor Burnard and Sophie White -- "Said without being asked" : slavery, testimony, and autobiography / Sophie White -- Fictions in the archives : Jupiter alias Gamelle or the tales of enslaved peddler in the French New Orleans Court / Cécile Vidal -- Slave judiciary testimonies in the French Caribbean : what to do with them? / Dominique Rogers -- A "Spanish Indian Squaw" in New England : Indian Ann's journey from slavery to freedom / Linford D. Fisher -- In the borderlands of race and freedom (and genre) : embedded Indian and African slave testimony in eighteenth-century New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "She said her answers contained the truth" : listening to and with enslaved witnesses in eighteenth-century New France / Brett Rushforth -- Ideologies of the Age of Revolution and emancipation enslaved African narratives / Aaron Spencer Fogelman -- Slave voice and the legal archive : the case of freedom suits before the Paris Admiralty Court / Miranda Spieler -- "I know I have to work" : the moral economy of labor among enslaved women in Berbice, 1819-1834 / Trevor Burnard -- "An anomalous population" : recaptive narratives in Antigua and British Colonial Archive, 1807-1828 / Anita Rupprecht -- Conclusion : Slave testimonies : the long view / Emily Clark.

Call Number

Sc E 22-627

ISBN

• 9780367541866
• 0367541866

LCCN

2020026051

OCLC

1158504779

Title

Hearing enslaved voices : African and Indian slave testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848 / edited by Sophie White and Trevor Burnard.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas; 14

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME.

Chronological Term

1700-1899

Added Author

White, Sophie, editor.

Burnard, Trevor, 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-627

JFE 21-2383