Unchained voices : an anthology of Black authors in the English-speaking world of the eighteenth century
Vincent Carretta (Editor)
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
Poetry
1 online resource (xi, 387 pages)
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Briton Hammon
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man
Jupiter Hammon
Poems: An Evening Thought
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by Himself
Phillis Wheatley
Poems: An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of ... George Whitefield
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
"To His Excellency General Washington"
Francis Williams
"An Ode"
Ignatius Sancho
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, in Two Volumes, to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life
John Marrant
A Narrative of the Lord's wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black
Johnson Green
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011