Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth CenturyIn Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard clearly for the first time in two centuries. Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic-America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa - between 1760 and 1798. Letters, poems, captivity narratives, petitions, criminal autobiographies, economic treatises, travel accounts, and antislavery arguments were produced during a time of various and changing political and religious loyalties. Although the theme of liberation from physical or spiritual captivity runs throughout the collection, freedom also clearly led to hardship and disappointment for a number of these authors. |
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... ( London , 1773 ) [ selections ] " To His Excellency General Washington " ( Providence , 1775 ) FRANCIS WILLIAMS 72 " An Ode❞ ( London , 1774 ) IGNATIUS SANCHO 77 LETTERS OF THE LATE IGNATIUS SANCHO ,
... ( London , 1773 ) [ selections ] " To His Excellency General Washington " ( Providence , 1775 ) FRANCIS WILLIAMS 72 " An Ode❞ ( London , 1774 ) IGNATIUS SANCHO 77 LETTERS OF THE LATE IGNATIUS SANCHO ,
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... ( London , 1782 ) [ selections ] JOHN MARRANT 110 A NARRATIVE OF THE LORD's wonderful DEALINGS WITH JOHN MARRANT , A BLACK ( London , 1785 ) JOHNSON GREEN 134 The Life and Confession of JOHNSON GREEN , Who Is to Be Executed this day ...
... ( London , 1782 ) [ selections ] JOHN MARRANT 110 A NARRATIVE OF THE LORD's wonderful DEALINGS WITH JOHN MARRANT , A BLACK ( London , 1785 ) JOHNSON GREEN 134 The Life and Confession of JOHNSON GREEN , Who Is to Be Executed this day ...
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... ( London , 1793 ) DAVID GEORGE 333 " An Account of the Life of Mr. DAVID GEORGE , from Sierra Leone in Africa ; given by himself in a Conversation with Brother RIPPON of London , and Brother PEARCE of Birmingham " ( London , 1793-1797 ) ...
... ( London , 1793 ) DAVID GEORGE 333 " An Account of the Life of Mr. DAVID GEORGE , from Sierra Leone in Africa ; given by himself in a Conversation with Brother RIPPON of London , and Brother PEARCE of Birmingham " ( London , 1793-1797 ) ...
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... London ; Dr. Williams's Library in London ; the Library of the Society of Friends House , London ; the Greater London Record Office ; the City of Westminster Archives Centre ; the Guildhall Library of the City of London ; the Islington ...
... London ; Dr. Williams's Library in London ; the Library of the Society of Friends House , London ; the Greater London Record Office ; the City of Westminster Archives Centre ; the Guildhall Library of the City of London ; the Islington ...
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Contents
II | 11 |
III | 17 |
IV | 18 |
V | 19 |
VI | 20 |
VII | 26 |
VIII | 32 |
IX | 59 |
XIII | 134 |
XIV | 142 |
XV | 145 |
XVI | 185 |
XVII | 319 |
XVIII | 325 |
XIX | 333 |
XX | 351 |
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