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In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women
who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish
a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative.
This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of
themselves and their stories before the War of American
Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century.
Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were
pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the
black African experience well before the slave narrative's
proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans
long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows
how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans
established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined
by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their
stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became
Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were
composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by
a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from
the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable,
race-based system of domestic oppression.
In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women
who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish
a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative.
This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of
themselves and their stories before the War of American
Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century.
Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were
pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the
black African experience well before the slave narrative's
proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans
long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows
how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans
established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined
by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their
stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became
Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were
composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by
a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from
the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable,
race-based system of domestic oppression.
This comprehensive collection brings together every extant text
known to have been penned by Elizabeth Webb, a missionary for the
Society of Friends who traveled and taught in England and America
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Webb’s work
circulated widely in manuscript form during her lifetime, but has
since become scarce. This annotated collection reintroduces her as
a major contributor to women’s writing and religious thought in
early America. Her autobiographical works highlight the importance
of ecstatic or visionary experiences in the construction of Quaker
identity and illustrate the role that women played in creating
religious and social networks. Webb used the book of Revelation as
a lens through which to comprehend episodes from American history,
and her commentary on the book characterized the colonization of
New England as a sign of the end times. Eighteenth-century readers
looked to her commentary for guidance during the American War of
Independence. Her unique take on Revelation was not only impactful
in its own day, but puts contemporary understanding of
eighteenth-century Quaker quietism into new perspective. Collecting
the earliest known writings by an American Quaker, and one of the
earliest by an American woman, this annotated volume rightly places
Webb in the company of colonial women writers such as Anne
Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and Sarah Kemble Knight. It will be an
invaluable resource for scholars of early America, women’s
history, religious history, and American literature.
This comprehensive collection brings together every extant text
known to have been penned by Elizabeth Webb, a missionary for the
Society of Friends who traveled and taught in England and America
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Webb's work
circulated widely in manuscript form during her lifetime, but has
since become scarce. This annotated collection reintroduces her as
a major contributor to women's writing and religious thought in
early America. Her autobiographical works highlight the importance
of ecstatic or visionary experiences in the construction of Quaker
identity and illustrate the role that women played in creating
religious and social networks. Webb used the book of Revelation as
a lens through which to comprehend episodes from American history,
and her commentary on the book characterized the colonization of
New England as a sign of the end times. Eighteenth-century readers
looked to her commentary for guidance during the American War of
Independence. Her unique take on Revelation was not only impactful
in its own day, but puts contemporary understanding of
eighteenth-century Quaker quietism into new perspective. Collecting
the earliest known writings by an American Quaker, and one of the
earliest by an American woman, this annotated volume rightly places
Webb in the company of colonial women writers such as Anne
Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and Sarah Kemble Knight. It will be an
invaluable resource for scholars of early America, women's history,
religious history, and American literature.
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