The earliest African American literatures : a critical reader
- Publication/Creation:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- The earliest African American literatures : a critical reader / edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith
- Series Titles:
- North Carolina scholarship online
North Carolina scholarship online.
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Hutchins, Zachary McLeod, editor
Smith, Cassander L., 1977-, editor
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- American literature--African American authors
African Americans in literature
Black people in literature
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
African literature (English)
Autobiography--African American authors
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Toward a theory of Black African mediation, authorship, and the early American literary archives -- Conversion narrative of a blackamoor maid, 1643 -- Narrative of Ben, a Negro, 1699 -- Execution of Joseph Hanno, a "miserable African," 1721 -- A letter from black enslaved Christians on a Virginia plantation, 1723 -- The confession of Flora Negro, 1748 -- The anti-slavery argument of Negro Greenwich, 1754 -- Anthony Johnson and the Casor suit,1655 -- The case of Elizabeth Key Grinstead, 1656 -- The Salem witch trials, the testimony of Candy and Mary Black, 1692 -- Adam Negro's tryal, 1701 -- The deposition of Lydia Draper in Dedham, MA, 1723 -- Testimony on the New York arson conspiracy, 1741 -- Petition of Jethro Boston for divorce, 1741 -- Last will and testament of Peter, 1743 -- The trial and execution of Mark and Phillis, 1755 -- Penelope, 1704 -- George, 1704 -- Mother of four, 1706 -- Peter, 1705-1714 -- Daniel, 1712-1714 -- Jethro, 1719-1720 -- John, 1719-1720 -- Richard Molson, 1720 -- Fransh Manuel, 1722 -- Quam, 1722-1723 -- Tom, 1723 -- Timothy, 1726-1727 -- Chocolate grinder, 1727-1728 -- Stephen, 1728-1729 -- John Mallott, 1729 -- Boy, 1729 -- Cora and Joe, 1728-1751 -- Jethro and King Philip's War, 1676 -- Onesimus and the small pox, 1711-1716 -- Titus in the Caribbean, 1714-1716 -- John Williams and the Atlantic world, 1724 -- A short account of the life of Elizabeth Colson, 1727 -- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, 1734.
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts that chronicle the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- General Note:
- Previously issued in print: 2021.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937657703402486
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908621-2-9
1-4696-6562-X - OCLC Number:
- 1289443896
- Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665603.001.0001
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