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Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Michael Roy reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture.

Table of Contents
  • Prologue — Runaway Bestsellers?
  • Chapter 1 — “The general diffusion of abolition light”: The Institutional Origins of the Antebellum Slave Narrative
  • Raindrops, Autumn Leaves, and Snowflakes: Publishing and Circulating Antislavery Literature in the 1830s
  • The Narrative of James Williams as Antislavery Propaganda
  • Faithful Portrait, Lawful Weapon: Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States
  • Paradoxical Presences: The Narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Chloe Spear
  • Chapter 2 — “My Narrative is just published”: Agency, Itinerancy, and the Slave Narrative
  • Marginality, Itinerancy, and Reform in Antebellum America
  • The Transatlantic Journeys of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  • Reprinting and Recycling the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
  • Other Narratives, Other Trajectories: Henry Bibb, Leonard Black, Sojourner Truth
  • Chapter 3 — “Quite a sensation”: Slave Narratives in the Age of Uncle Tom
  • “The servile publishers of that day”: Antislavery and the Book Trade
  • The Business of Twelve Years a Slave
  • Old Friends, New Names: Frederick Douglass and Charles Ball Redux
  • Incidents in the Life of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Epilogue — The Slave Narrative Unbound

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        Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/09/2022
        ISBN13: 9780299338404, 978-0299338404
        ISBN10: 0299338401
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        Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Michael Roy reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture.

        Table of Contents
        • Prologue — Runaway Bestsellers?
        • Chapter 1 — “The general diffusion of abolition light”: The Institutional Origins of the Antebellum Slave Narrative
        • Raindrops, Autumn Leaves, and Snowflakes: Publishing and Circulating Antislavery Literature in the 1830s
        • The Narrative of James Williams as Antislavery Propaganda
        • Faithful Portrait, Lawful Weapon: Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States
        • Paradoxical Presences: The Narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Chloe Spear
        • Chapter 2 — “My Narrative is just published”: Agency, Itinerancy, and the Slave Narrative
        • Marginality, Itinerancy, and Reform in Antebellum America
        • The Transatlantic Journeys of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
        • Reprinting and Recycling the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
        • Other Narratives, Other Trajectories: Henry Bibb, Leonard Black, Sojourner Truth
        • Chapter 3 — “Quite a sensation”: Slave Narratives in the Age of Uncle Tom
        • “The servile publishers of that day”: Antislavery and the Book Trade
        • The Business of Twelve Years a Slave
        • Old Friends, New Names: Frederick Douglass and Charles Ball Redux
        • Incidents in the Life of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
        • Epilogue — The Slave Narrative Unbound

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