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Title:

Genius in bondage : literature of the early Black Atlantic / edited by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

272 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Equiano, Olaudah,--b. 1745.--Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
Hammon, Briton.--Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprising deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man.
Wheatley, Phillis,--1753-1784--Criticism and interpretation.
Sancho, Ignatius,--1729-1780--Criticism and interpretation.
African literature (English)--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Slaves' writings, English--History and criticism.
Africans--Foreign countries--Historiography.
Slavery in literature.
Blacks in literature.

Other Authors:

Carretta, Vincent.
Gould, Philip, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Felicity 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.

ISBN:

9780813122038 (acid-free paper)
0813122031 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46918056

LCCN:

2001002581

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)