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. .
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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