Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative by Zachary McLeod Hutchins (review).
Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2024, v. 57, n. 4. P. 571 1 of 3
Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3
Authored By: Smith, Cassander L. 3 of 3
Abstract
Zachary McLeod Hutchins' book, "Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative," explores the early Black African life in colonial North America through an analysis of newspapers and archival materials from the early eighteenth century. Hutchins argues that the popular understanding of slavery underwent a transformation between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and that the genre of the slave narrative has been defined based on this later understanding. The book expands the archive of early Black life writing and provides important context for the nineteenth-century slave narrative and the broader tradition of Black life writing. [Extracted from the article]
Additional Information
- Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2024/07, Vol. 57, Issue 4, p571
- Document Type:Article
- Subject Area:History
- Publication Date:2024
- ISSN:0013-2586
- DOI:10.1353/ecs.2024.a931704
- Accession Number:178852014
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