TY - GEN AU - Hager,Christopher TI - Word by word: emancipation and the act of writing PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England PB - Harvard University Press KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Political and social views KW - Intellectual life KW - Social conditions KW - To 1964 KW - United States KW - Civil rights KW - Emancipation KW - African KW - American literature KW - Authors, American KW - African Americans KW - Literature and society KW - African Americans in literature KW - Slaves KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34009 ER -