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Freedom Narratives of African American Women - A Study of 19th Century Writings (Paperback)
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Freedom Narratives of African American Women - A Study of 19th Century Writings (Paperback)
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While narratives of enslavement have become more central to
conversations about African American women's writing, this book
first discusses the genre of narratives of freedom and then
examines women's relationships to the community as they seek to
illustrate a collective free identity. I argue that these texts
represent a sense of civil rights that emerges prior even to the
ideas of racial uplift that reached a height for women in the late
nineteenth century and moved into the twentieth century. Under the
umbrella of freedom narratives, this book also reads black women's
narratives of education, individual progress, marriage and family,
labor, and intellectual commitments to see how they both reflect
and produce national and community rebuilding projects. I argue
that black women define freedom through all of the means listed
above, but what is most significant for the purposes of their
writing is freedom to choose their paths and to tell their own
stories, in their own words and on their own terms.
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