Hager, Christopher, 1974-

Word by word emancipation and the act of writing / [electronic resource] : Christopher Hager. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - 311 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages.


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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Authors, American--Political and social views.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African American authors--Political and social views.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
Literature and society--United States.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans in literature.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / H17 2013eb

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