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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