The House of Bondage

or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves

AvOctavia V. Rogers Albert

Inbunden, Engelska, 1988

Del i serien The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

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Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert added her own incisive commentary to the personal narratives of former slaves. Her early interviews, like many antebellum slave narratives, depict cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labour. Seeing herself as a public advocate for social change, Albert called for every Christian's personal acceptance of responsibility for slavery's legacies and lessons. As well as its historical value, the book has many merits as a work of literature, using dialogue and experiments with dialect, and incorporating songs and poems in the text.

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Utgivningsdatum:1988-07-28
Mått:184 x 173 x 19 mm
Vikt:249 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:OUP USA
Illustratör:Frances Smith Foster
ISBN:9780195052633

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One of the most interesting volumes...is also one of the most eclectic. The House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves by Octavia Rogers Albert is a fascinating piece of literature partly because it is so experimental in its attempt to blend an interview format with slave narratives, biographical accounts, historical information, and even her own personal commentary. Published in 1890, House of Bondage is an example of the black oral tradition in process. The reader becomes an eye-witness to black culture and history in formation...Albert skillfully moves the dialogue between the black vernacular of the slaves and the standard English of the black middle-class narrator....Frances Smith Foster in her introduction to House of Bonage argues that the narrative authority of Albert's personal experience makes her book more authentic in its portrayal of slavery than Uncle Tom's Cabin.