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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... soon as we had reached , one half were to be Landed , and the other four to return to the Sloop , to fetch the Captain and the others on Shore . The Captain order'd us to take with us our Arms , Ammunition , Provisions and Necessaries ...
... soon as we had reached , one half were to be Landed , and the other four to return to the Sloop , to fetch the Captain and the others on Shore . The Captain order'd us to take with us our Arms , Ammunition , Provisions and Necessaries ...
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... soon became unfit for respiration , from a variety of loathsome smells , and brought on a sickness among the slaves , of which many died , thus falling victims to the improvident avarice , as I may call it , of their purchasers . This ...
... soon became unfit for respiration , from a variety of loathsome smells , and brought on a sickness among the slaves , of which many died , thus falling victims to the improvident avarice , as I may call it , of their purchasers . This ...
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... soon as they could get their pay , they would immediately come to Portsmouth to me , where this ship was going : but , alas ! all my hopes were baffled , and the hour of my deliverance was yet far off . My master , having soon concluded ...
... soon as they could get their pay , they would immediately come to Portsmouth to me , where this ship was going : but , alas ! all my hopes were baffled , and the hour of my deliverance was yet far off . My master , having soon concluded ...
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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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