The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An AnthologyWilliam L. Andrews The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews explores the reasons why black North Carolinians made such a disproportionate contribution (in quantity and lasting quality) to African American literature as compared to that of other southern states with larger African American populations. The authors in this anthology parlayed both the advantages and disadvantages of their North Carolina beginnings into sophisticated perspectives on the best and the worst of which humanity, in both the South and the North, was capable. They created an African American literary tradition unrivaled by that of any other state in the South. Writers included here are Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, David Bryant Fulton, George Moses Horton, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Moses Roper, and David Walker. |
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... escape to the North. Instead, he either sought or agreed to white sponsorship for a unique literary venture, the publication of a small book, The Hope of Liberty, the profits of which might prove substantial enough to allow the poet to ...
... escape to the North. Instead, he either sought or agreed to white sponsorship for a unique literary venture, the publication of a small book, The Hope of Liberty, the profits of which might prove substantial enough to allow the poet to ...
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... Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery.27 The author of this unprecedented exposé was a twenty-two-year-old runaway whose career in slavery had begun in Caswell County, North Carolina. Published in London in 1837, Roper's ...
... Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery.27 The author of this unprecedented exposé was a twenty-two-year-old runaway whose career in slavery had begun in Caswell County, North Carolina. Published in London in 1837, Roper's ...
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... escape”—the more he runs away, the more savagely he is punished, which precipitates yet another escape attempt—suggests the slave's inevitable entrapment and defeat. Yet Roper survives, continues to resist, and ultimately finds his way ...
... escape”—the more he runs away, the more savagely he is punished, which precipitates yet another escape attempt—suggests the slave's inevitable entrapment and defeat. Yet Roper survives, continues to resist, and ultimately finds his way ...
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... escape artistry or the slave community's survival ethic that justified it, was every bit as uncertain as the routes he took as a literal fugitive from the South to the North and ultimately to England. A Narrative of the Adventures and ...
... escape artistry or the slave community's survival ethic that justified it, was every bit as uncertain as the routes he took as a literal fugitive from the South to the North and ultimately to England. A Narrative of the Adventures and ...
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... escaping slavery, if he pondered it at all, must have seemed either hopelessly impractical (how could one escape with a family in tow?) or emotionally self-defeating (what good was freedom apart from one's family?). The cruelly ironic ...
... escaping slavery, if he pondered it at all, must have seemed either hopelessly impractical (how could one escape with a family in tow?) or emotionally self-defeating (what good was freedom apart from one's family?). The cruelly ironic ...
Contents
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Statement of Editorial Practice | 41 |
GEORGE MOSES HORTON | 43 |
DAVID WALKER | 69 |
MOSES ROPER | 89 |
LUNSFORD LANE | 139 |
HARRIET JACOBS | 171 |
CHARLES W CHESNUTT | 217 |
ANNA JULIA COOPER | 263 |
DAVID BRYANT FULTON | 289 |
Timeline | 311 |
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