Hearing enslaved voices : African and Indian slave testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848 / edited by Sophie White and Trevor Burnard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Sophie, editor.

Burnard, Trevor, 1960- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas ; 14.

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave narratives--North America--History and criticism.

Slave narratives.

Slavery--North America--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--North America--History--19th century.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustr

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony by enslaved African Americans and Native Americans in the British and French Atlantic World. It interrogates how such narratives were produced and the meanings that can be attached.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Introduction: Slave Narratives in British and French America, 1700-1848

Section One Voices in the Archives

1 "Said Without Being Asked": Slavery, Testimony, and Autobiography

2 Fictions in the Archives: Jupiter alias Gamelle or the Tales of an Enslaved Peddler in the French New Orleans Court

3 Slave Judiciary Testimonies in the French Caribbean: What to Do with Them

Section Two Native Americans

4 A "Spanish Indian Squaw" in New England: Indian Ann's Journey from Slavery to Freedom

5 In the Borderlands of Race and Freedom (and Genre): Embedded Indian and African Slave Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England

6 "She Said Her Answers Contained the Truth": Listening to and with Enslaved Witnesses in Eighteenth-Century New France

Section Three African Americans

7 Ideologies of the Age of Revolution and Emancipation in Enslaved African Narratives

8 Slave Voice and the Legal Archive: The Case of Freedom Suits before the Paris Admiralty Court

9 "I Know I Have to Work": The Moral Economy of Labor among Enslaved Women in Berbice, 1819-1834

10 "An Anomalous Population": Recaptive Narratives in Antigua and the British Colonial Archive, 1807-1828

Conclusion: Slave Testimonies: The Long View

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-308812-0

1-003-08812-0

1-000-17261-9

9781003088127

OCLC:

1158504084