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3 produkter

1. 

   Trials of Phillis Wheatley

   America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

   Av Henry Gates

   Häftad, 2010

   305 kr

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   In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But …

2. 

   In Search of Hannah Crafts

   Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative

   Av Henry Gates, Hollis Robbins m. fl.

   Häftad, 2004

   258 kr

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   Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel written by a …

3. 

   Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic

   Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815

   Av Henry Gates, William L. Andrews m. fl.

   Häftad, 1998

   438 kr

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   In the eighteenth century, a small group of black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves into history. The battle lines were clear,literacy stood as the ultimate measure of humanity to the white arbiters of Western culture. If blacks …