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Title Early Black British writing : Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and others : selected texts with introduction, critical essays / edited by Alan Richardson, Debbie Lee.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  PR1110.B5 E17 2004    Available  ---
Description ix, 443 pages ; 21 cm.
Series New Riverside editions
New Riverside editions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-443).
Contents Part 1: Narrative. From Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African / Ignatius Sancho -- From Thoughts and sentiments on the evil and wicked traffic of the slavery and commerce of the human species, humbly submitted to the inhabitants of Great Britain by Ottobah Cugoano, a native of Africa / Ottobah Cugoano -- From The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African: written by himself / Olaudah Equiano -- From The life, history, and unparalleled sufferings of John Jea, the African preacher: compiled and written by himself / John Jea -- The axe laid to the root, or a fatal blow to oppressors, being an address to the planters and negroes of the island of Jamaica, no. 1 / Robert Wedderburn -- The horrors of slavery: exemplified in the life and history of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn, V.D.M. / Robert Wedderburn
Part two: Poetry. From Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / Phillis Wheatley -- From The interesting narrative / Olaudah Equiano -- From A collection of hymns: compiled and selected by John Jea, African preacher of the Gospel / John Jea -- From Poems by a slave in the island of Cuba, recently liberated: translated from the spanish by R. R. Madden, M.D. / Juan Francisco Manzano -- Part Three: Voices. Letter to James Rogers / James Harris -- Letters from Sierra Leone settlers -- Slave complaints -- Part four: Recent criticism. "The rootless cosmopolitanism of the black Atlantic" / Paul Gilroy -- "Slavery and sensibility: Phillis Wheatley within the fracture" / Sonia Hofkosh -- "Robert Wedderburn and mulatto discourse" / Helen Thomas.
Provenance Gift of Dr. Judith L. Johnston.
Subject English literature -- Black authors.
English literature -- Black authors.
English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
Black people -- Great Britain -- Literary collections.
Black people.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Literary collections.
Subject Black people -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Black people -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
English literature -- 18th century.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Black people in literature.
Black people in literature.
Genre/Form Literature.
Literature.
Added Author Richardson, Alan, 1955-
Lee, Debbie (Deborah Jean), 1960-
Added Title Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and others
ISBN 0618317651 paperback
9780618317653 paperback