Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

ISBN-13: 9780299338404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Michaël Roy; Susan Pickford

Spis treści

• Prologue — Runaway Bestsellers?
• Chapter 1 — “The general diffusion of abolition light”: The Institutional Origins of the Antebellum Slave Narrative
• Raindrops, Autumn Leaves, and Snowflakes: Publishing and Circulating Antislavery Literature in the 1830s
• The Narrative of James Williams as Antislavery Propaganda
• Faithful Portrait, Lawful Weapon: Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States
• Paradoxical Presences: The Narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Chloe Spear
• Chapter 2 — “My Narrative is just published”: Agency, Itinerancy, and the Slave Narrative
• Marginality, Itinerancy, and Reform in Antebellum America
• The Transatlantic Journeys of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Reprinting and Recycling the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
• Other Narratives, Other Trajectories: Henry Bibb, Leonard Black, Sojourner Truth
• Chapter 3 — “Quite a sensation”: Slave Narratives in the Age of Uncle Tom
• “The servile publishers of that day”: Antislavery and the Book Trade
• The Business of Twelve Years a Slave
• Old Friends, New Names: Frederick Douglass and Charles Ball Redux
• Incidents in the Life of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Epilogue — The Slave Narrative Unbound