An edition of Impossible witnesses
(2001)
Impossible witnesses
truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony
by Dwight A. McBride
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Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.
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African Americans in literature, Autobiography, Slaves, American prose literature, History and criticism, African American authors, Intellectual life, Slavery in literature, Slaves' writings, American, African Americans, Antislavery movements, Biography, History, Abolicionismo, Literatura norte-americana, Escravidão, Movimentos ideológicos, American prose literature, history and criticism, Antislavery movements, united states, Slaves, united states, African americans, biography, Slaves' writings, history and criticism, African americans in literature, American literature, african american authors, history and criticismPlaces
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Impossible witnesses: truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Bearing Witness: Memory, Theatricality,
the Body, and Slave Testimony 1
Abolitionist Discourse: A Transatlantic Context 16
Abolitionist Discourse and Romanticism 21
Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in England 25
African Humanity and the Possibility of Rage in Edgeworth,
Cowper, and Opie 42
On Whiteness and Humanity: The Example of Blake's
"The Little Black Boy" 59
Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in the U.S. 62
Emerson and the Fugitive Slave Law Toward a Theory
of Whiteness 67
Troping the Slave: Margaret Fuller's Review of Douglasss
Na,atie 75
The Body as Evidence: Garrison's Defense of David
Walker's Appeal 78
'I Know What a Slave Knows": Mary Prince as Witness, or
the Rhetorical Uses of Experience 85
Appropriating the Word: Phillis Wheatley, Religious
Rhetoric, and the Poetics of Liberation lo3
Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral
Argument against Slavery 120
Consider the Audience: Witnessing to the Discursive
i Reader in Douglass's Narmrative 151
Afterword 173
191
"Notes 177
Index 201
About the Author 207.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
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