To Tell A Free Story by William L. Andrews
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865
A scholarly study of African American autobiography from 1760 to 1865, it traces the evolution from spiritual conversions and captivity accounts to slave narratives, showing how Black writers fashioned public selves amid constraints of racism, editorial oversight, and demands for authentication. Analyzing rhetoric, religious motifs, republican ideals, and abolitionist politics, it situates these life stories within print culture and reform movements, arguing that autobiographical self-representation functioned as both a claim to personhood and a tool for social transformation leading up to the Civil War.
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- 1986
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