Liberation historiography
Subtitle: African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861
By: by John Ernest.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: African Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Historiography.; African American historians -- History -- 18th century.; African American historians -- History -- 19th century.; Historiography -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Historiography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: The theater of history; title: Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history; title: Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history; title: The assembly of history : orations and conventions; title: Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American; title: Press and the work of history; title: Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.