Word by word emancipation and the act of writing /

Hager, Christopher, 1974-

Word by word emancipation and the act of writing / [electronic resource] : Christopher Hager. - Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England : Harvard University Press, 2013. - xi, 311 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Printed in the United States of America. Excerpt from “Th e Idea of Order at Key West” from Th e Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Colored Man's Constitution -- Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages -- Conclusion: Up from the South.



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