Title The earliest African American literatures : a critical reader / edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Toward a theory of Black African mediation, authorship, and the early American literary archives -- Conversion narrative of a blackamoor maid, 1643 -- Narrative of Ben, a Negro, 1699 -- Execution of Joseph Hanno, a "miserable African," 1721 -- A letter from black enslaved Christians on a Virginia plantation, 1723 -- The confession of Flora Negro, 1748 -- The anti-slavery argument of Negro Greenwich, 1754 -- Anthony Johnson and the Casor suit,1655 -- The case of Elizabeth Key Grinstead, 1656 -- The Salem witch trials, the testimony of Candy and Mary Black, 1692 -- Adam Negro's tryal, 1701 -- The deposition of Lydia Draper in Dedham, MA, 1723 -- Testimony on the New York arson conspiracy, 1741 -- Petition of Jethro Boston for divorce, 1741 -- Last will and testament of Peter, 1743 -- The trial and execution of Mark and Phillis, 1755 -- Penelope, 1704 -- George, 1704 -- Mother of four, 1706 -- Peter, 1705-1714 -- Daniel, 1712-1714 -- Jethro, 1719-1720 -- John, 1719-1720 -- Richard Molson, 1720 -- Fransh Manuel, 1722 -- Quam, 1722-1723 -- Tom, 1723 -- Timothy, 1726-1727 -- Chocolate grinder, 1727-1728 -- Stephen, 1728-1729 -- John Mallott, 1729 -- Boy, 1729 -- Cora and Joe, 1728-1751 -- Jethro and King Philip's War, 1676 -- Onesimus and the small pox, 1711-1716 -- Titus in the Caribbean, 1714-1716 -- John Williams and the Atlantic world, 1724 -- A short account of the life of Elizabeth Colson, 1727 -- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, 1734 Summary "With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed February 7, 2022) Subject African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Biography -- Sources American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- African American authors -- 18th century American literature -- African American authors -- 17th century LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American American literature -- African American authors African Americans in literature African Americans -- Biography Genre/Form Electronic books autobiographies (literary works) Sources Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies Autobiographies Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book Author Hutchins, Zachary McLeod, editor Smith, Cassander L., 1977- editor. ISBN 9781469665627 146966562X 9781469665610 1469665611

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