Hearing Enslaved Voices: African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848

ISBN-13: 9780367542801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str.

White, Sophie

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This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony by enslaved African Americans and Native Americans in the British and French Atlantic World. It interrogates how such narratives were produced and the meanings that can be attached.

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Introduction: Slave Narratives in British and French America, 1700–1848  Trevor Burnard and Sophie White  Section One: Voices in the Archives  1. "Said Without Being Asked": Slavery, Testimony and Autobiography  Sophie White  2. Fictions in the Archives: Jupiter alias Gamelle or the Tales of an Enslaved Peddler in the French New Orleans’ Court  Cécile Vidal  3. Slave Judiciary Testimonies in the French Caribbean: What to Do with Them  Dominique Rogers  Section Two: Native Americans  4. A "Spanish American Squaw" in New England: Indian Ann’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom  Linford D. Fisher  5. In the Borderlands of Race and Freedom (and Genre): Embedded Indian and African Slave Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England  Margaret Ellen Newell  6. "She Said Her Answers Contained the Truth": Listening to and with Enslaved Witnesses in Eighteenth-Century New France  Brett Rushforth  Section Three: African Americans  7. Ideologies of the Age of Revolution and Emancipation in Enslaved African Narrative  Aaron Spencer Fogleman  8. Slave Voice and the Legal Archive: The Case of the Freedom Suits Before the Paris Admiralty Court  Miranda Spieler  9. "I Know I Have to Work": The Moral Economy of Labor Among Enslaved Women in Berbice, 1819–1834  Trevor Burnard  10. "An Anomalous Population": Re-captive Narratives in Antigua and the British Colonial Archive, 1807–1828  Anita Rupprecht  Conclusion: Slave Testimonies: The Long View  Emily Clark