Word by Word : : Emancipation and the Act of Writing / / Christopher Hager.
One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North-or so we have long belie...
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Hager, Christopher, author. Word by Word : Emancipation and the Act of Writing / Christopher Hager. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2012 1 online resource : 11 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: A Colored Man's Constitution -- 1. Black Literacy in the White Mind -- 2. The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- 3. Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- 4. The Written We -- 5. Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- 6. Black Ink, White Pages -- Conclusion: Up from the South -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North-or so we have long believed. But as Christopher Hager reveals, a few enslaved African Americans managed to become literate in spite of all prohibitions, and during the halting years of emancipation, thousands more seized the chance to learn. The letters and diaries of these novice writers, unpolished and hesitant yet rich with voice, show ordinary black men and women across the South using pen and paper to make sense of their experiences. Through an unprecedented gathering of these forgotten writings-from letters by individuals sold away from their families, to petitions from freedmen in the army to their new leaders, to a New Orleans man's transcription of the Constitution-Word by Word rewrites the history of emancipation. The idiosyncrasies of these untutored authors, Hager argues, reveal the enormous difficulty of straddling the border between slave and free. These unusual texts, composed by people with a unique perspective on the written word, force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. For African Americans at the end of slavery, learning to write could be liberating and empowering, but putting their hard-won skill to use often proved arduous and daunting-a portent of the tenuousness of the freedom to come. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) African American authors Political and social views. African Americans in literature. African Americans Civil rights. African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. African Americans Social conditions To 1964. American literature African American authors History and criticism. American literature 19th century History and criticism. Authors, American 19th century Political and social views. Literature and society United States. Slaves Emancipation United States. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE LITERATURE 2013 9783110317268 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2013 9783110317251 ZDB-23-DLW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2013 9783110374902 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674059863 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067486 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674067486.jpg |
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