Unchained voices : an anthology of Black authors in the English-speaking world of the eighteenth century / dited by Vincent Carretta

Contributor(s):

Carretta, Vincent ed

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1996.Description: xi, 387 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0813108845

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LOC classification:

PR9085 .U53 1996

Summary: Briton Hammon -- Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man -- Jupiter Hammon -- Poems: An Evening Thought -- An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess -- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw -- A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by Himself -- Phillis Wheatley -- Poems: An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of...George Whitefield -- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral -- "To His Excellency General Washington" -- Francis Williams -- "An Ode" -- Ignatius Sancho -- Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, in Two Volumes, to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life -- John Marrant -- A Narrative of the Lord's wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black -- Johnson Green. Responsibility: Vincent Carretta, editor. Abstract: In 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. In his introduction, Carretta reconstructs the historical and cultural context of the works, emphasizing the constraints of the eighteenth-century genres under which these authors wrote. The texts and annotations are based on extensive research in both published and manuscript holdings of archives in the United States and the United Kingdom. Appropriate for undergraduates as well as for scholars, Unchained Voices gives a clear sense of the major literary and cultural issues at the heart of writings in English by people of African descent.

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Briton Hammon --
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man --
Jupiter Hammon --
Poems: An Evening Thought --
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess --
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw --
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by Himself --
Phillis Wheatley --
Poems: An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of...George Whitefield --
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral --
"To His Excellency General Washington" --
Francis Williams --
"An Ode" --
Ignatius Sancho --
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, in Two Volumes, to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life --
John Marrant --
A Narrative of the Lord's wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black --
Johnson Green.
Responsibility: Vincent Carretta, editor.
Abstract:
In 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.

In his introduction, Carretta reconstructs the historical and cultural context of the works, emphasizing the constraints of the eighteenth-century genres under which these authors wrote. The texts and annotations are based on extensive research in both published and manuscript holdings of archives in the United States and the United Kingdom. Appropriate for undergraduates as well as for scholars, Unchained Voices gives a clear sense of the major literary and cultural issues at the heart of writings in English by people of African descent.

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