Liberation historiography : African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861 / John Ernest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernest, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--To 1863--Historiography.

African Americans.

African American historians--History--18th century.

African American historians.

African American historians--History--19th century.

Historiography--United States--History--18th century.

Historiography.

Historiography--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-19th-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory. Here, John Ernest demonstrates that African Americans created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical and the political are inextricably connected.

Contents:

The theater of history

Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history

Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history

The assembly of history : orations and conventions

Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American

Press and the work of history

Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-412) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878571

9780807863534

080786353X

OCLC:

476236588