The Antislavery Literature Project.

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

Antislavery Literature Project.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--Sources.

Antislavery movements.

Slavery--United States--History--Sources.

Slavery.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

polychrome

Other Title:

At head of title: Antislavery literature

Place of Publication:

[Tempe, Ariz.] : The Antislavery Literature Project, c2004-

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Antislavery literature represents the origins of multicultural literature in the United States. It is the first body of American literature produced by writers of diverse racial origins. It encompasses slave narratives, lectures, travel accounts, political tracts, prose fiction, poetry, drama, religious and philosophical literature, compendia, journals, manifestoes and children's literature. There is a complex and contradictory range of voices, from journalistic reportage to sentimental poetry, from racial paternalism and stereotyping to advocacy of interracial equality, from religious disputation to militant antislavery calls. In its whole, this literature is inseparable from an understanding of democratic development in US society." -- website.

Notes:

Title from webpage (viewed on Nov. 17, 2009)

"The Antislavery Literature Project was established in 2003 as a collaborative electronic publishing venture in a major but under-studied area of American literature. The Project is based in the Arizona State University's English department and works in cooperation with the EServer, located at Iowa State University" -- "About the Project" page of the website.

Website pages are updated by Joe Lockard (as of Nov. 17, 2009)

OCLC:

466868747