Author: Solomon BayleyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Narrative of some remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, formerly a slave in the State of Delaware ... Written by himself ... To which are prefixed a few remarks by Robert Hurnard
Author: Solomon BayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley
Author: Solomon BayleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511843621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
IN presenting the following fragments to the attention of the public, it appears necessary to state the manner in which they came into my possession, and to give the reader a brief account of the Author, Solomon Bayley. During the early part of my residence in America in the year 1820, I met with the piece containing the account of his escape from slavery, with the mental and bodily trials he underwent, resulting from that step: being much interested in the perusal of this simple and unadorned narrative, I was induced to make some inquiry into the character and circumstances of a man, the recital of whose sufferings and wrongs had deeply excited my sympathy. The information which, in consequence, I obtained from many respectable inhabitants of Wilmington, where I then resided, was in all respects gratifying, so far as related to his character; and was, besides, such as to induce a hope that his situation in life was about to become comparatively easy and independent.
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley
Author: Solomon BayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A Narrative Of Some Remarkable Incidents In The Life Of Solomon Bayley
Author: Solomon BayleyPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343242855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
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A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley
Author: The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674002760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Unrequited Toil
Author: Calvin SchermerhornPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027667
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
Author: Kelly RossPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192669028
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of surveillance and policing of African Americans, the book challenges the traditional conception of surveillance as a top-down enterprise, equally addressing the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below) that enslaved people and their allies used to resist, escape, or merely survive racial subjugation. Examining the dialectic of racialized surveillance and sousveillance from fugitive slave narratives to fictional genres focused on crime and detection, the book shows how these genres share a thematic concern with the surveillance of racialized bodies and formal experimentation with ways of telling a story in which certain information is either rendered visible or kept hidden. Through close readings of understudied fugitive slave narratives published in the 1820s and 1830s, as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, Ross analyzes the different ways white and black authors take up these issues in their writing—from calming white fears of enslaved rebellion to abolishing slavery—and demonstrates how literary representations ultimately destabilize any clear-cut opposition between watching from above and below. In so doing, the book demonstrates the importance of race to surveillance studies and claims a greater role for the impact of surveillance on literary expression in the US during the era of slavery.
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199711143
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his Life has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography represents a historic partnership between noted scholar of the African American slave narrative, William L. Andrews, and Regina Mason, Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter. Their extensive historical and genealogical research has produced an authoritative, copiously annotated text that features pages from an original Grimes family Bible, transcriptions of the 1824 correspondence that set the terms for the author's self-purchase in Connecticut (nine years after his escape from Savannah, Georgia), and many other striking images that invoke the life and times of William Grimes.
Slave Religion
Author: Albert J. RaboteauPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195174135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution."