Format:
1 online resource (265 pages)
ISBN:
9781000172614
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas Series
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367541866
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367541866
Language:
English
