The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An AnthologyWilliam L. Andrews Univ of North Carolina Press, 2006 M12 8 - 328 pages The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews explores the reasons why black North Carolinians made such a disproportionate contribution (in quantity and lasting quality) to African American literature as compared to that of other southern states with larger African American populations. The authors in this anthology parlayed both the advantages and disadvantages of their North Carolina beginnings into sophisticated perspectives on the best and the worst of which humanity, in both the South and the North, was capable. They created an African American literary tradition unrivaled by that of any other state in the South. Writers included here are Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, David Bryant Fulton, George Moses Horton, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Moses Roper, and David Walker. |
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... kind of freedom his North Carolina antislavery supporters like Gales expected him to accept. This, in turn, may help to explain why Horton wrote his “Lines, On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom” even ...
... kind of freedom his North Carolina antislavery supporters like Gales expected him to accept. This, in turn, may help to explain why Horton wrote his “Lines, On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom” even ...
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... kind of desperate self-sufficiency or seek community elsewhere. Leaving the state in the mid-1820s, first for Charleston, South Carolina, one of the South's biggest cities (with one of its most spirited black communities), and ...
... kind of desperate self-sufficiency or seek community elsewhere. Leaving the state in the mid-1820s, first for Charleston, South Carolina, one of the South's biggest cities (with one of its most spirited black communities), and ...
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... kind of curse, evolves into Roper the victor, who adapts his appearance into protective coloration and disguise for a series of increasingly wily forays to freedom. On the back roads and byways of the rural and urban South, Roper ...
... kind of curse, evolves into Roper the victor, who adapts his appearance into protective coloration and disguise for a series of increasingly wily forays to freedom. On the back roads and byways of the rural and urban South, Roper ...
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... kind what appears to have been his refusal to acknowledge his slave-born, out-of-wedlock daughter. By contrast, Cooper revered her mother, whose “self-sacrificing toil to give me advantages she had never enjoyed is worthy the highest ...
... kind what appears to have been his refusal to acknowledge his slave-born, out-of-wedlock daughter. By contrast, Cooper revered her mother, whose “self-sacrificing toil to give me advantages she had never enjoyed is worthy the highest ...
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... kind of black nationalism pioneered by Walker. Like Walker, Fulton left Wilmington as a largely selfeducated young man in search of better prospects outside the South. Both men settled in the urban North, their relatively inconspicuous ...
... kind of black nationalism pioneered by Walker. Like Walker, Fulton left Wilmington as a largely selfeducated young man in search of better prospects outside the South. Both men settled in the urban North, their relatively inconspicuous ...
Contents
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Statement of Editorial Practice | 41 |
GEORGE MOSES HORTON | 43 |
DAVID WALKER | 69 |
MOSES ROPER | 89 |
LUNSFORD LANE | 139 |
HARRIET JACOBS | 171 |
CHARLES W CHESNUTT | 217 |
ANNA JULIA COOPER | 263 |
DAVID BRYANT FULTON | 289 |
Timeline | 311 |
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