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Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815
by Henry Louis Gates ; William L Andrews
Binding: Paperback, First Edition. paper edition, 656 pages
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
List Price: USD $26.00
Weight: 140
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 8.9 x W: 0.5 inches
ISBN 10: 1887178988
ISBN 13: 9781887178983
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In the eighteenth century, a small group of black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves into history. The battle lines were clear literacy stood as the ultimate measure of humanity to the white arbiters of Western culture. If blacks could succeed in this sphere, they would prove that African and European humanity were inseparable. Without a literary record, blacks seemed predestined for slavery. A small but dedicated group, now known as the Black Atlantic writers, stepped forward. Their autobiographies, published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, not only defied the popular opinion of the time that blacks were unfit for letters, but inaugurated the Black American and Black British literary traditions. While slave narratives are often excerpted and anthologized, they are rarely collected in their entirety. Pioneers of the Black Atlantic is the first anthology to include the complete texts of the five most important and influential narratives of the eighteenth century. Included here are the writings of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and John Jea. Their stories, resonant still in our racially divided world, are landmarks in the history of autobiography and human rights.


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