The earliest African American literatures : a critical reader /
"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 gener...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469665627_hutchins |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469665627 146966562X 9781469665610 1469665611 9798890862129 9781469665597 146966559X 9781469665603 1469665603 |