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Author Hager, Christopher, 1974-

Title Word by word [electronic resource] : emancipation and the act of writing / Christopher Hager.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 311 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Political and social views.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African American authors -- Political and social views.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
Literature and society -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans in literature.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674059863 (alk. paper)
9780674067486 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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