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Antebellum Slave Narratives - Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa (Paperback)
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Antebellum Slave Narratives - Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa (Paperback)
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population
and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth
century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each
passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key
members of the abolitionist movement-Frederick Douglass, William
Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs-revealing how these
highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to
creatively engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of
their listening and reading audiences. When engaged in public
sphere discourses, these individuals were not, as some scholars
have suggested, inclined to accept unconditionally stereotypical
constructions of their own identities. Rather they were quite
skillful in negotiating between their affinity with antislavery
Christianity and their own intimate involvement with slave circle
dance and improvisational song, burial rites, conjuration,
divination, folk medicinal practices, African dialects and African
inspired festivals. The authors emerge as more complex figures than
scholars have imagined. Their political views, though sometimes
moderate, often reflected a strong desire to strike a fierce blow
at the core of the slavocracy.
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