Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

Author/Contributor(s):	Hutchins, Zachary McLeod
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	12/27/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the black African experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation"--