Word by Word : Emancipation and the Act of Writing.

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Author:

Hager, Christopher.

ISBN:

9780674067486

Personal Author:

Hager, Christopher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Contents:

Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: A Colored Man's Constitution -- 1. Black Literacy in the White Mind -- 2. The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- 3. Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- 4. The Written We -- 5. Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- 6. Black Ink, White Pages -- Conclusion: Up from the South -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

African American authors -- Political and social views.

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Political and social views.

Literature and society -- United States.

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