Author: Francis FEDRICPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, fifty years of slavery in the Southern States of America. With preface, by C. Lee
Author: Francis FEDRICThe Bookseller
Author: Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Black American Writers
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349814369
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Charles R. RodePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Slavery and Class in the American South
Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190908408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their respective masters." Henry Bibb, fugitive slave, editor, and antislavery activist, stated this in his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849). In William L. Andrews's magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclosed class-based reasons for violence that broke out between "impudent," "gentleman," and "lady" slaves and their resentful "mean masters." Andrews's far-reaching book shows that status and class played key roles in the self- and social awareness and in the processes of liberation portrayed in the narratives of the most celebrated fugitives from U.S. slavery, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and William and Ellen Craft. Slavery and Class in the American South explains why social and economic distinctions developed and how they functioned among the enslaved. Noting that the majority of the slave narrators came from the higher echelons of the enslaved, Andrews also pays close attention to the narratives that have received the least notice from scholars, those from the most exploited class, the "field hands." By examining the lives of the most and least acclaimed heroes and heroines of the slave narrative, Andrews shows how the dividing edge of social class cut two ways, sometimes separating upper and lower strata of slaves to their enslavers' advantage, but at other times fueling pride, aspiration, and a sense of just deserts among some of the enslaved that could be satisfied by nothing less than complete freedom. The culmination of a career spent studying African American literature, this comprehensive study of the antebellum slave narrative offers a ground-breaking consideration of a unique genre of American literature.