Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-speaking World of the Eighteenth CenturyVincent Carretta In 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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... gentleman : Equiano plays upon the difference between birth and behavior in definitions of a gentleman . By Johnson's first definition , a gentleman is “ a man of birth ; a man of extraction , though not noble " ; by his second , “ a ...
... gentleman : Equiano plays upon the difference between birth and behavior in definitions of a gentleman . By Johnson's first definition , a gentleman is “ a man of birth ; a man of extraction , though not noble " ; by his second , “ a ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine for April 1792 , Literary and Biographical Magazine and British Review for May 1792 , and the Edin- burgh Historical Register or Monthly Intelligencer for April 1792 . [ The Gentleman's Magazine , 62 : 384 , reads ...
... Gentleman's Magazine for April 1792 , Literary and Biographical Magazine and British Review for May 1792 , and the Edin- burgh Historical Register or Monthly Intelligencer for April 1792 . [ The Gentleman's Magazine , 62 : 384 , reads ...
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... gentleman , who gave me two shillings per day , with victuals and lodging ; so that I was enabled to clothe myself and family , and provide other necessaries of life : But recollecting the concern I had felt in years past , for the ...
... gentleman , who gave me two shillings per day , with victuals and lodging ; so that I was enabled to clothe myself and family , and provide other necessaries of life : But recollecting the concern I had felt in years past , for the ...
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A Note on the Texts and Editorial Policy | 17 |
JUPITER HAMMON | 26 |
James Albert UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW | 32 |
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