Word by word : emancipation and the act of writing /
Hager, Christopher,1974-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages.
American literature
Authors, American
American literature
African Americans
African American authors
African Americans
Literature and society
African Americans
African Americans in literature.
Slaves