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Watching Slavery; Witness Texts and Travel Reports

Watching Slavery; Witness Texts and Travel Reports

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0820495425
ISBN13: 9780820495422
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Feb 5 2008
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry, and legal texts to analyze direct and indirect encounters with slavery in the antebellum United States. It discusses the rhetorical politics of British and American, and black and white, observations of slavery. The discussion raises critical questions about the role of witness and its link with political action, both in antebellum and contemporary America.

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