Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth CenturyIn Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard clearly for the first time in two centuries. Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic-America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa - between 1760 and 1798. Letters, poems, captivity narratives, petitions, criminal autobiographies, economic treatises, travel accounts, and antislavery arguments were produced during a time of various and changing political and religious loyalties. Although the theme of liberation from physical or spiritual captivity runs throughout the collection, freedom also clearly led to hardship and disappointment for a number of these authors. |
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... leave and an award from the Committee on Africa and the Americas , enabled me to conduct research on both sides of the Atlantic . For help in the preparation for publication of some of the texts I thank Carol L. Warrington and her staff ...
... leave and an award from the Committee on Africa and the Americas , enabled me to conduct research on both sides of the Atlantic . For help in the preparation for publication of some of the texts I thank Carol L. Warrington and her staff ...
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Contents
II | 11 |
III | 17 |
IV | 18 |
V | 19 |
VI | 20 |
VII | 26 |
VIII | 32 |
IX | 59 |
XIII | 134 |
XIV | 142 |
XV | 145 |
XVI | 185 |
XVII | 319 |
XVIII | 325 |
XIX | 333 |
XX | 351 |
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