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Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
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"Breaking with Tradition" is a study of slave literacy in eighteenth-century British North America, the era of the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution. Instead of highlighting the work of a few northern slave authors (the present emphasis in African American literary history), it focuses on the relationship between slave education in colonial Virginia and the social and political circumstances in which slaves acquired a knowledge of letters. A social history of life in the slave quarters, the "great house," and in towns, "Breaking with Tradition" is at once a case study of slaves reading and writing in the …
You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
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