TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hager,Christopher
TI  - Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
SN  - 9780674067486
AV  - PS153 
U1  - 810.9/896073075 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - American literature-African American authors-History and criticism
KW  - Authors, American-19th century-Political and social views
KW  - American literature-19th century-History and criticism
KW  - African Americans-Intellectual life-20th century
KW  - African American authors-Political and social views
KW  - African Americans-Social conditions-To 1964
KW  - Literature and society-United States
KW  - African Americans-Civil rights
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Enslaved persons-Emancipation-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: A Colored Man's Constitution -- 1. Black Literacy in the White Mind -- 2. The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- 3. Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- 4. The Written We -- 5. Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- 6. Black Ink, White Pages -- Conclusion: Up from the South -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings--or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors' perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom
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