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6.5 X 10.5 Long Title.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61526-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Edited by Audrey A. Fisch Index More information INDEX abolition 2 antebellum literature 116 British 64 Anti-Slavery Bugle 18 discourse of 3, 35 antislavery movement 11, 12, 16 Garrisonian abolitionists 19 print culture of 16–17, 18 lecture circuit of 19 Antislavery Record 18 literature of 3, 70–73, 151 Anti-slavery Reporter 66 poetry 71 “as told to” accounts 233, 235 rise of movement 28 The Atlantic Monthly 158 slave women in relation to 232–33 Augustan ideals 66 white abolitionists 3 authenticity 73–76 An Account of the Life of Mr. David see also slave narrative George 15 autobiography 4, 13, 14, 16, 26, 46, 99–102, aesthetic (literary) value 6, 23, 196–97, 223 207 Africa 87–92 African Diaspora 170 Bakhtin, M. M. 141, 147, 148–49 African American writers (literature) 4, 5, Ball, Charles 25, 39, 70 112, 137–41, 147, 148–49, 150–51, 183 Fifty Years in Chains 24 African American women writers 198 Slavery in the United States 23–24 Allen, Richard 95 Banneker, Benjamin amanuensis 241 letter to Thomas Jefferson 14 Gronniosaw’s use of 63 Barthelemy, Anthony G. 222 Hammon’s and Marrant’s use of 86 Baxter, Richard Picquet’s use of 239–41 Call to the Unconverted 92 Prince’s use of 233 Baym, Nina 128 Stowe as 76 Woman’s Fiction 117 Truth’s use of 101, 235, 236 Belinda 13–14 William Craft as 238 Bell, Bernard W. 5 American Abolition Society 67 The Afro-American Novel and Its American and Foreign Antislavery Tradition 168–69 Reporter 18 Benezet, Anthony 17, 64, 65 American and Foreign Antislavery Society 18 Bercovitch, Sacvan 94 American Anti-Slavery Society 18, 23, 28, Berlin, Ira 46 203, 204, 208–09, 211 Bibb, Henry 18, 21, 40, 123, 146, 228 American Civil War 2, 24, 34, 140, 146, 150, Narrative of Henry Bibb 26, 108, 226 175, 190, 196, 219–20 on family 31–32 Anderson, Benedict 146 Black Arts Movement 169 Andrews, William L. 7, 87, 89, 101 Black Power Movement 169 Annis, John 65 Black Studies Movement 220 259 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61526-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Edited by Audrey A. Fisch Index More information index Blackburn, Robin 64 “Dave’s Neckliss” 157–58 Bland, Sterling 71 The House Behind the Cedars 153 African American Slave Narratives 62 The Marrow of Tradition 153, 158 Blassingame, John 189–90, 195 Child, Lydia Maria 25, 76–77, 117, 189, 190 Blight, David 205, 220–21 as editor of Jacobs 191, 193, 195 Bok, Francis Hobomok 192 Escape from Slavery 183 preface to Incidents 111, 115 Bontemps, Arna 192 Romance of the Republic 116 Black Thunder 165, 170–72, 173 Christianity 2, 3–4, 11, 15, 19, 226 “Foreword” to Black Thunder 171 biblical evidence for slavery 18 Great Slave Narratives 171 Christian audiences/readers 49 Boston Anti-Slavery Society 107 Christian doctrine 92, 95, 152, 176 Bradley, David Christian identity 12 The Chaneysville Incident 169, 172, 173 Christian philosophy 18 Braxton, Joanne 110, 192 Christian salvation 63, 84, 86, 93, 96–97 A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Christian tropes of enslavement and Travels and Gospel Labors of George liberation 20 White 15 Christian values 73, 92 Brown, Henry “Box” 41, 146 conversion to 93 Christianity and 31 corruption of 228 Narrative of Henry “Box” Brown 24–25, King James Bible 51 107, 226 Methodism 45, 93, 95–96 Brown, Sterling 192 slavery and 30–31 Brown, William Wells 18, 19, 39, 42, 74, see also evangelicalism, Quakers 226 Civil Rights Movement 190, 197, 220 Clotel 5, 108, 117, 140, 141–43, 239 “Civis” 48, 51 Memoir 108 Clarke, Lewis 32, 120 Narrative of William Wells Brown 23, 24, Clarkson, Thomas 17, 55 73–74, 107–08, 226, 229 An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of Browning, Elizabeth Barrett the Human Species 17, 64 “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” 71 Cliff, Michelle 170 Bruce, Dickson D. 2 Free Enterprise 170 Bunyan, John Clifton, Lucille 170 Grace Abounding 63 Coker, Daniel The Pilgrim’s Progress 20, 21, 85, 100 A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an Butler, Octavia 170 African Minister 14 Kindred 169, 172 colonization movements 18 The Columbian Orator 205, 211 Cable, George Washington Conde, Maryse 170 Old Creole Days 156 Cooper, J. California Caldwell, Patricia 94 Family 169 canon (literary) 6, 147, 196, 229–30 Cowper, William 51 captivity narratives (Indian) 3–4, 13, 83–86 “The Negro’s Complaint” 71 Equiano in comparison to 48–49 Cox, James M. 102 Carby, Hazel 117–18, 140, 143, 144, 171 Craft, Ellen 6, 116 Carey, Matthew Craft, William and Ellen 19, 41, 146 The American Museum 13 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Carretta, Vincent 2–3 20, 107, 119–21, 124, 237–39 Cary, Lorene Crafts, Hannah The Price of a Child 170, 181–83 The Bondwoman’s Narrative 147–48 Cather, Willa 196 criminal conversion narrative 13 Chesnutt, Charles 5, 156 Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah 16, 54, 55–56, The Conjure Woman 157–58 64 260 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61526-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Edited by Audrey A. Fisch Index More information index publishing strategies of 21 on freedom 40, 101, 130 reviews of 22 on Fuller 25 Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and on parentage 108, 123–24 Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and on Patrick Henry 41 Commerce of the Human Species 17, on slave songs 124 48, 63 Peabody’s praise of 25 Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of sexuality in slavery 32 Slavery 17 “The Slavery Party” 213 Cummins, Maria speeches 6, 219, 225–26 The Lamplighter 128 “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” 213 Darling, Marsha 174–75 Du Bois, W. E. B. 5, 44, 58, 112, 150, 154, Dash, Julie 170 158–60 Davis, David Brion 11, 65 Black Reconstruction 165 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Dust of Dawn 159 151 “Of Alexander Crummell” 160 “The Declaration of Independence” 210, 225 “Passing of the First-Born” 160 Defoe, Daniel The Souls of Black Folk 158–60, 210 Robinson Crusoe 54 The Suppression of the African Delany, Martin Slave-Trade to the United States of Blake, or the Huts of America 140, 146 America 159 The Depression 170 “Talented Tenth” 152 Diallo, Ayuba Suleiman 28 duCille, Anne 117, 198 Dixon, Thomas The Clansman 157 Edwards, Jonathan “Documenting the American South” 7 Faithful Narrative of the Surpising Works Doddridge, Philip of God 92 On the Rise and Progress of Religion in Emancipation Act of 1833 62 the Soul 92 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 143, 205 Douglass, Frederick 3, 6, 7, 18, 19, 102, 129, Englishness 12 142, 228, 229 Eppler, Karen Sanchez´ 73, 117 abolition and 23, 36, 61 Equiano, Olaudah 2–3, 16, 18, 28, 143 “Appendix” to My Bondage 212–13 doubts about 46 “Appendix” to Narrative 67–69 financial success of narrative 21 as orator 201–07 Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano attacks on authenticity of 34 7, 16, 17, 21, 64–66, 92, 138–39 Aunt Hester’s (Esther’s) whipping 39, 108, on slavery and the slave trade 50 223, 237 publishing history of narrative 21 Christianity and 30, 210 reviews of 22 cited by Stowe 75 Ernest, John 6, 7 Covey on 41, 68–69 evangelicalism 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20–21 death of 154 reading market 21 editions of Narrative 24 Eyerman, Ron 151 frontispiece to My Bondage 210 frontispiece to Narrative 205 Fabi, Giulia 161 Garrison and 69; see also Garrison family 2, 31–32 “The Heroic Slave” 69 feminist The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass allegories 170 192 criticism 6, 192, 193–94 My Bondage and My Freedom 6, 20, 24, Fern, Fanny 30, 105–07, 192, 208, 210–14 Ruth Hall 119 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Forten, James 17 6, 7, 104–05, 154, 192, 213–14, 218–22 Letters from a Man of Color 14 261 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-61526-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Edited by Audrey A. Fisch Index More information index Foster, Frances Smith 89, 139, 221–22 Harper, Frances 5 Franklin, Benjamin 25, 143 Iola Leroy 151–54, 161 Autobiography 4, 100, 101 July 1867 speech 151 Frederick Douglass’ Paper 116, 209 Harris, Joel Chandler Free Soil Movement 18 Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings 157 Freedom’s Journal 139 Harris, Raymond The French Revolution 171 Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of Fuller, Margaret 25 the Slave Trade 63 Fugitive Slave Law 41, 75, 120, 129, 181, Harris, Trudier 229 239 Hart, Albert Bushnell 227 Hartman, Saidiya V. 225, 226 Gandhi, Mahatma 171 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 197 Garner, Margaret 174 Heath Anthology of American Garrison, William Lloyd 18, 20, 28, 41, Literature 218, 221 66–70, 190, 202 Hemingway, Ernest 196 preface to Douglass’s Narrative 71, 104, Hemmings, Sally 141, 143 105, 115, 204 Henson, Josiah 3, 25, 38, 75–76, 229 Relationship with Douglass 24, 69, 70–71, The Life of Josiah Henson 23, 75 208–09, 211, 212 Truth Stranger Than Fiction 23, 75 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 142, 147–48, 163 Uncle Tom’s Story of his Life 75 The Classic Slave Narrative 7 Hentz, Caroline Lee 118 gender 6 Marcus Warland 4, 122–23 and sexuality 173 The Planter’s Northern Bride 119, 122 gender identity 168 Herald of Freedom 18 Gilbert, Olive 101, 110, 235–37 Herron, Carolivia Gilroy, Paul 11 Thereafter Johnnie 170 Goellnicht, Donald 161 Hildreth, Richard Gomez, Jewelle 170 The Slave 70–71 Gould, Philip 2, 90 Hodes, Martha 145 Gray, Thomas 101 Holmes, Mary Jane the Great Migration 164 ’Lena Rivers 128 Green, Johnson Hopkins, Pauline The Life and Confession of Johnson Green Contending Forces 153 13 Of One Blood 153 Griffith, D.W.
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