Daughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and
Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves
and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early
nineteenth-century Antigua. These members of the "free colored"
community who married white men and played an active role as
educators, antislavery activists, and Methodist evangelicals were
also among the first African Caribbean female writers. This
exceptional volume offers for the first time a collection of their
writings.
Because the records of the Hart sisters are rare and original
testimony from black women of the time, they will be of great
interest to the modern scholar. Autobiographical and biographical
narrative, along with antislavery tracts, hymns, devotional poetry,
and religious documents vividly reveal the lives of these
courageous women. Their writings illuminate the complex of racial,
spiritual, and class- and gender-based divisions, as well as
attitudes, of Anglophone Caribbean society. Moira Ferguson's
introduction situates the Hart sisters in historical context and
explains how their writings helped establish a specific black
Antiguan cultural identity.
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