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Title The earliest African American literatures : a critical reader / edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Toward a theory of Black African mediation, authorship, and the early American literary archives -- Conversion narrative of a blackamoor maid, 1643 -- Narrative of Ben, a Negro, 1699 -- Execution of Joseph Hanno, a "miserable African," 1721 -- A letter from black enslaved Christians on a Virginia plantation, 1723 -- The confession of Flora Negro, 1748 -- The anti-slavery argument of Negro Greenwich, 1754 -- Anthony Johnson and the Casor suit,1655 -- The case of Elizabeth Key Grinstead, 1656 -- The Salem witch trials, the testimony of Candy and Mary Black, 1692 -- Adam Negro's tryal, 1701 -- The deposition of Lydia Draper in Dedham, MA, 1723 -- Testimony on the New York arson conspiracy, 1741 -- Petition of Jethro Boston for divorce, 1741 -- Last will and testament of Peter, 1743 -- The trial and execution of Mark and Phillis, 1755 -- Penelope, 1704 -- George, 1704 -- Mother of four, 1706 -- Peter, 1705-1714 -- Daniel, 1712-1714 -- Jethro, 1719-1720 -- John, 1719-1720 -- Richard Molson, 1720 -- Fransh Manuel, 1722 -- Quam, 1722-1723 -- Tom, 1723 -- Timothy, 1726-1727 -- Chocolate grinder, 1727-1728 -- Stephen, 1728-1729 -- John Mallott, 1729 -- Boy, 1729 -- Cora and Joe, 1728-1751 -- Jethro and King Philip's War, 1676 -- Onesimus and the small pox, 1711-1716 -- Titus in the Caribbean, 1714-1716 -- John Williams and the Atlantic world, 1724 -- A short account of the life of Elizabeth Colson, 1727 -- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, 1734.
Summary "With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period"-- Provided by publisher.
Access Concurrent user level: Unlimited; DRM-free (purchased)
Subject African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Sources.
African Americans -- Biography.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- African American authors -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Hutchins, Zachary McLeod, editor.
Smith, Cassander L., 1977- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Earliest African American literatures. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021] 9781469665597 (DLC) 2021041596 (OCoLC)1244881913
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