Impossible witnesses
Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.
African Americans in literatureAutobiographySlavesAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticismAfrican American authorsIntellectual lifeSlavery in literatureSlaves' writings, AmericanAfrican AmericansAntislavery movementsBiography