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Voices beyond bondage: an anthology of verse by African Americans of the 19th century

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Slaves in chains, toiling on master's plantation. Beatings, bloodied whips. This is what many of us envision when we think of 19th century African Americans; source materials penned by those who suffered in bondage validate this picture. Yet slavery was not the only identity of 19th century African Americans. Whether they were freeborn, self-liberated, or born in the years after the Emancipation, African Americans had a rich cultural heritage all their own, a heritage largely subsumed in popular history and collective memory by the atrocity of slavery.

The early 19th century birthed the nation's first black-owned periodicals, the first media spaces to provide primary outlets for the empowerment of African American voices. For many, poetry became this empowerment. Almost every black-owned periodical featured an open call for poetry, and African Americans, both free and enslaved, responded by submitting droves of poems for publication. Yet until now, these poems — and an...

Request Code : ZLIBIO2583322
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Year:
2014
Publisher:
NewSouth Inc.
Language:
English
Pages:
310 Seiten : Illustrationen
ISBN 10:
1603062769
ISBN 13:
9781603062763
ISBN:
9781588382986,9781603062763,1588382982,1603062769

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