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Witnessing Slavery : The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives / Frances Smith Foster.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Frances Smith.
- Series:
- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; 0069-9624. no. 46.
- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 46, 0069-9624
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--African American authors.
- American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons.
- Intellectual life.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American.
- United States.
- Biography.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- History.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Intellectual life.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 182 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- Slave Narratives and Their Cultural Matrix
- Blacks in Colonial Literature
- The Development of Slave Narratives
- Social and Literary Influences upon Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
- The Plot of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
- Racial Myths in Slave Narratives
- Post-bellum Influence.
- Notes:
- "Jacket Design/Cathy Cotter."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-176) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is a review copy sent with card and [1] page information about book and author laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0313208212
- OCLC:
- 4835304
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