Word by word
Subtitle: emancipation and the act of writing
By: Christopher Hager
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Harvard University Press
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674059863
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Literature and society; Intellectual life; Civil rights; History and criticism; American literature; American Authors; Political and social views; Social conditions; African American authors; Slave insurrections in literature; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Black Literacy in the White Mind; title: The Private Life of the Literate Slave; title: Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom; title: The Written We; title: Petition and Protest in the Occupied South; title: Black Ink, White Pages.