DOCSLIB.ORG

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature S

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature S The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Henry Louis Gates Jr., General Editor W. E. B. Du Bois PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES HARVARD UNIVERSITY Nellie Y. McKay, General Editor PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • NewTdrfc'«. U *« Hi s Contents PREFACE: TALKING BOOKS xxvii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xliii THE VERNACULAR TRADITION 1 [Entries marked * are included on the Audio Companion} SPIRITUALS 5 Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? 7 City Called Heaven r 8 God's A-Gonna Trouble the Water 8 Walk Together Children 9 I Know Moon-Rise 9 I'm A-Rollin' 10 I Been Rebuked and I Been Scorned 10 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? • 10 Soon I Will Be Done • 11 No More Auction Block 12 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 13 Steal Away to Jesus • 13 Go Down, Moses • 14 Been in the Storm So Long • 14 Oh, Freedom! 15 GOSPEL 16 This Little Light of Mine 17 Down by the Riverside 18 Freedom in the Air 20 Take My Hand, Precious Lord * 20 Peace Be Still 21 Stand by Me 21 THE BLUES 22 Yellow Dog Blues 23 St. Louis Blues • 24 Beale Street Blues 25 Down-Hearted Blues 26 See, See Rider • 27 Prove It on Me Blues 27 Gulf Coast Blues 28 Trouble in Mind 29 Backwater Blues • 29 viii CONTENTS In the House Blues 30 How Long Blues - 31 Hellhound on My Trail 31 It's a Low Down Dirty Shame 32 Good Morning, Blues • 33 Sent for You Yesterday 34 Going to Chicago Blues 34 Fine and Mellow 34 Hoochie Coochie 35 Sunnyland • 36 SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS, BALLADS, AND WORK SONGS 37 SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS ' 38 [We raise de wheat] 38 Me and My Captain 38 Promises of Freedom 39 Jack and Dinah Want Freedom 39 Run, Nigger, Run , 40 Learn to Count 40 Another Man Done Gone • 40 You May Go But This Will Bring You Back • 41 BALLADS 41 Poor Lazarus 41 The Signifying Monkey 42 Wild Negro Bill 44 John Henry • 45 Frankie and Johnny 48 Railroad Bill 49 Stackolee 50 Sinking of the Titanic 51 Shine and the Titanic 51 WORK SONGS 52 Pick a Bale of Cotton 52 Go Down, Old Hannah 53 Can't You Line It? 54 JAZZ 55 Andy Razaf: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue? • 57 Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) • 58 King Pleasure: Parker's Mood • 59 RAP 60 Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 61 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message • 62 Public Enemy: Don't Believe the Hype 65 Queen Latifah: The Evil That Men Do 68 SERMONS 69 God 71 C. L. Franklin: The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest 71 CONTENTS ix Zora Neale Hurston: [Faith hasn't got no eyes] 78 Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream • . 80 Martin Luther King: I've Been to the Mountaintop 83 Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet • . .' 90 FOLKTALES 102 All God's Chillen Had Wings 103 Big Talk 105 Deer Hunting Story ' 106 How to Write a Letter 107 " 'Member Youse a Nigger" 107 "Ah'll Beatcher Makin'Money" • 108 Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest 111 Why Women Always Take, Advantage of Men i . , 111 "De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard" 114 The Ventriloquist . , 114 You Talk Too Much, Anyhow . • 115 The King Buzzard : , ., 116 A Flying Fool ' 117 Bur Rabbit in Red Hill Churchyard 118 Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again ; 119 The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story . 120 How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr: Fox 121 The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf • • 123 What the Rabbit Learned 125 THE LITERATURE OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: 1746-1865 127 LUCY TERRY (c. 1730-1821) 137 Bars Fight • 137 OLAUDAH EQUIANO (c. 1745-1797) 138 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself - 140 Volume 1 140 Chapter I , . • :" .. ' 141 Chapter II : 151 From Chapter III 161 From Chapter IV 164 PHILLISWHEATLEY(1753?-1784) . ., 164 POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL' • 167 Preface .., 167 [Letter Sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher] 167 [To the Publick] • - :' 168 To Mscenas ' '' 169 To the University of Cambridge, in New-England 170 On Being Brought from Africa to America 171 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 171 To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth 172 CONTENTS On Imagination 173 To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 175 To Samson Occom 176 To His Excellency General Washington 176 DAVID WALKER (1785-1830) 178 David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World 179 Preamble 179 Article I. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery 182 GEORGE MOSES HORTON (17977-1883?) 190 The Lover's Farewell 191 On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom 192 Division of an Estate 193 The Creditor to His Proud Debtor 194 George Moses Horton, Myself 195 SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797-1883) 196 Ar'n't I a Woman? Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 198 From The Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851 198 From The Narrative of Sojoumer Truth, 1878 199 MARIA W. STEWART (1803-1879) 201 Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build 202 Introduction 202 Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall 204 HARRIET JACOBS (c. 1813-1897) 207 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 209 Preface 209 I. Childhood 210 II. The New Master and Mistress 212 V. The Trials of Girlhood 216 X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 218 XIV. Another Link to Life 222 XVII. The Flight 224 XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 226 XXIX. Preparations for Escape 229 XXXIX. The Confession 235 XL. The Fugitive Slave Law 236 XLI. Free at Last 240 WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (18147-1884) 245 Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave 247 Chapter V 247 From Chapter VI 249 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter 255 Chapter I. The Negro Sale 255 CONTENTS xi Chapter II. Going to the South 261 Chapter IV. The Quadroon's Home 265 Chapter XV. To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave 267 Chapter XIX. Escape of Clotel 269 ADA [SARAH L. FORTEN] (1814-1898?) 277 Lines Suggested on Reading "An Appeal to Christian Women of the South," by A. E. Grimke 277 HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET (1815-1882) 279 An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America 280 VICTOR SEJOUR (1817-1874) . 286 The Mulatto 287 FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895) 299 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 302 My Bondage and My Freedom 369 Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists 369 Chapter XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain 373 From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 379 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 391 Second Part From Chapter XV. Weighed in the Balance ' 391 Third Part Chapter I. Later Life 397 JAMES M. WHITFIELD (1822-1871) 401 America 402 Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String 405 Self-Reliance 406 FRANCES E.W. HARPER (1825-1911) • 408 Ethiopia * 412 Eliza Harris 412 The Slave Mother • ' . 414 Vashti 415 Bury Me in a Free Land 417 Aunt Chloe's Politics • 418 Learning to Read • 418 A Double Standard . 419 Songs for the People - 421 An Appeal to My Country Women . ., • 422 The Two Offers . •• 423 Our Greatest Want 431 Fancy Etchings 432 [Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations] 432 [Dangerous Economies] 434 Woman's Political Future 436 xii CONTENTS HARRIET E.WILSON (18287-1863?) 439 Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North 441 Preface 441 Chapter I. Mag Smith, My Mother 441 Chapter II. My Father's Death 444 Chapter III. A New Home for Me 447 From Chapter VIII. Visitor and Departure 452 Chapter X. Perplexities.-^\nother Death 455 Chapter XII. The Winding Up of the Matter 458 LITERATURE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION TO THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE: 1865-1919 461 CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE (1837-1914) 472 A Parting Hymn 473 Journals From Journal One 474 From Journal Three 480 BOOKER T.WASHINGTON (1856-1915) 488 Up From Slavery 490 Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves 490 Chapter II. Boyhood Days 498 Chapter III. The Struggle for an Education 505 Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address 513 CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932) 522 The Goophered Grapevine 523 The Passing of Grandison 532 The Wife of His Youth 545 ANNA JULIA COOPER (18587-1964) 553 Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race 554 PAULINE E. HOPKINS (1859-1930) 569 Contending Forces 570 Chapter VIII. The Sewing-Circle 570 Chapter XV. Will Smith's Defense of His Race 577 Famous Men of the Negro Race 581 Booker T. Washington 581 Famous Women of the Negro Race 588 Literary Workers (Frances E. W. Harper) 588 Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's Reply (March 1903) 593 IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT (1862-1931) 595 A Red Record 596 Chapter I. The Case Stated 596 Chapter X. The Remedy 602 CONTENTS xiii W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963) . 606 A Litany of Atlanta • 609 The Song of the Smoke 612 The Souls of Black Folk 613 <k~~ The Damnation of Women 740<N Criteria of Negro Art 7 52 <=- Two Novels '' 759 JAMES D.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Frederick Douglass
    Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph. D. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection Zbe Hmcrican Crisis Biographies Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. With the counsel and advice of Professor John B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania. Each I2mo, cloth, with frontispiece portrait. Price $1.25 net; by mail» $i-37- These biographies will constitute a complete and comprehensive history of the great American sectional struggle in the form of readable and authoritative biography. The editor has enlisted the co-operation of many competent writers, as will be noted from the list given below. An interesting feature of the undertaking is that the series is to be im- partial, Southern writers having been assigned to Southern subjects and Northern writers to Northern subjects, but all will belong to the younger generation of writers, thus assuring freedom from any suspicion of war- time prejudice. The Civil War will not be treated as a rebellion, but as the great event in the history of our nation, which, after forty years, it is now clearly recognized to have been. Now ready: Abraham Lincoln. By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER. Thomas H. Benton. By JOSEPH M. ROGERS. David G. Farragut. By JOHN R. SPEARS. William T. Sherman. By EDWARD ROBINS. Frederick Douglass. By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Judah P. Benjamin. By FIERCE BUTLER. In preparation: John C. Calhoun. By GAILLARD HUNT. Daniel Webster. By PROF. C. H. VAN TYNE. Alexander H. Stephens. BY LOUIS PENDLETON. John Quincy Adams.
    [Show full text]
  • The Rhetoric of Education in African American Autobiography and Fiction
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Masters Theses Graduate School 8-2006 Dismantling the Master’s Schoolhouse: The Rhetoric of Education in African American Autobiography and Fiction Miya G. Abbot University of Tennessee - Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Abbot, Miya G., "Dismantling the Master’s Schoolhouse: The Rhetoric of Education in African American Autobiography and Fiction. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2006. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/1487 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Miya G. Abbot entitled "Dismantling the Master’s Schoolhouse: The Rhetoric of Education in African American Autobiography and Fiction." I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of , with a major in English. Miriam Thaggert, Major Professor We have read this thesis and recommend its acceptance: Mary Jo Reiff, Janet Atwill Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Miya G.
    [Show full text]
  • The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration Michele Goodwin University of California, Irvine
    Cornell Law Review Volume 104 Article 4 Issue 4 May 2019 The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration Michele Goodwin University of California, Irvine Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons Recommended Citation Michele Goodwin, The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration, 104 Cornell L. Rev. 899 (2019) Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol104/iss4/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cornell Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT: MODERN SLAVERY, CAPITALISM, AND MASS INCARCERATION Michele Goodwint INTRODUCTION ........................................ 900 I. A PRODIGIOUS CYCLE: PRESERVING THE PAST THROUGH THE PRESENT ................................... 909 II. PRESERVATION THROUGH TRANSFORMATION: POLICING, SLAVERY, AND EMANCIPATION........................ 922 A. Conditioned Abolition ....................... 923 B. The Punishment Clause: Slavery's Preservation Through Transformation..................... 928 C. Re-appropriation and Transformation of Black Labor Through Black Codes, Crop Liens, Lifetime Labor, Debt Peonage, and Jim Crow.. 933 1. Black Codes .......................... 935 2. Convict Leasing ........................ 941
    [Show full text]
  • RIVERFRONT CIRCULATING MATERIALS (Can Be Checked Out)
    SLAVERY BIBLIOGRAPHY TOPICS ABOLITION AMERICAN REVOLUTION & SLAVERY AUDIO-VISUAL BIOGRAPHIES CANADIAN SLAVERY CIVIL WAR & LINCOLN FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS GENERAL HISTORY HOME LIFE LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN SLAVERY LAW & SLAVERY LITERATURE/POETRY NORTHERN SLAVERY PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SLAVERY/POST-SLAVERY RELIGION RESISTANCE SLAVE NARRATIVES SLAVE SHIPS SLAVE TRADE SOUTHERN SLAVERY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WOMEN ABOLITION Abolition and Antislavery: A historical encyclopedia of the American mosaic Hinks, Peter. Greenwood Pub Group, c2015. 447 p. R 326.8 A (YRI) Abolition! : the struggle to abolish slavery in the British Colonies Reddie, Richard S. Oxford : Lion, c2007. 254 p. 326.09 R (YRI) The abolitionist movement : ending slavery McNeese, Tim. New York : Chelsea House, c2008. 142 p. 973.71 M (YRI) 1 The abolitionist legacy: from Reconstruction to the NAACP McPherson, James M. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1975. 438 p. 322.44 M (YRI) All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery Mayer, Henry, 1941- New York : St. Martin's Press, c1998. 707 p. B GARRISON (YWI) Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery Metaxas, Eric New York, NY : Harper, c2007. 281p. B WILBERFORCE (YRI, YWI) American to the backbone : the life of James W.C. Pennington, the fugitive slave who became one of the first black abolitionists Webber, Christopher. New York : Pegasus Books, c2011. 493 p. B PENNINGTON (YRI) The Amistad slave revolt and American abolition. Zeinert, Karen. North Haven, CT : Linnet Books, c1997. 101p. 326.09 Z (YRI, YWI) Angelina Grimke : voice of abolition. Todras, Ellen H., 1947- North Haven, Conn. : Linnet Books, c1999. 178p. YA B GRIMKE (YWI) The antislavery movement Rogers, James T.
    [Show full text]
  • HEALING the SCARS of SLAVERY: REFLECTIONS in 18Th CENTURY LITERATURE and BEYOND
    HEALING THE SCARS OF SLAVERY: REFLECTIONS IN 18th CENTURY LITERATURE AND BEYOND DR. SANGITA GHODKE PDEA's Baburaoji Gholap College, Sangvi, Pune. India The main theme of the present paper is the socio-economic, religious and psychosomatic encounters in the literature written about the Slaves and the Oppressed. The paper is an attempt to explore psychosomatic and socio-economic consequences of the forced slave trade of eighteenth century through literature of the sufferers of Africa and America. Eighteenth century has been condemned for the scars and stigma of full-fledged slave trade. The European nations and the American States were the dominant players of the cruel inhuman but commercially motivated slave trade and socially and economically weak populace from the continents like Africa were the tragic sufferers. The present paper is divided into four parts: (i) origins of slavery, (ii) slave trade and its religious implications in Africa and America, (iii) the survey of the slave narratives with illustrations of healing the scars of slavery from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and (iv) present day scenario of neo slavery. The paper attempts to elaborate socio-economic and religious interests of the masters and psychosomatic problems of the slaves of the eighteenth century. All the philosophers and social reformers have guided the humanity by being virtuous. The concluding part will try to highlight guiding principle and spiritual path of enlightenment shown by Mahatma Gandhi from India, Martin Luther King Junior from the USA, Nelson Mandela from South Africa and Dalai Lama from Tibet by becoming non-violent and righteous.
    [Show full text]
  • How Mixed-Race Americans Navigated the Racial Codes of Antebellum America
    James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Masters Theses, 2020-current The Graduate School 5-7-2020 Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America Alexander Brooks Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029 Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Brooks, Alexander, "Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America" (2020). Masters Theses, 2020-current. 48. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029/48 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the The Graduate School at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses, 2020-current by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Under Cover of Lightness: How Mixed-Race Americans Navigated the Racial Codes of Antebellum America Alex Brooks A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of History May 2020 FACULTY COMMITTEE: Committee Chair: Rebecca Brannon Committee Members/ Readers: Gabrielle Lanier David Owusu-Ansah Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Miscegenation 3. North 4. Upper South 5. Lower South 6. 1850s Turbulence 7. Liberia 8. Conclusion ii Abstract This thesis investigates the way people of mixed “racial” ancestry—known as mulattoes in the 18th and 19th centuries—navigated life in deeply racially divided society. Even understanding “mulatto strategies” is difficult because it is to study a group shrouded in historical ambiguity by choice.
    [Show full text]
  • Recommended Reading List for Black History Month
    Recommended Reading List for Black History Month Reading List Disclaimer The fact that a book is listed on this page does not mean that BJU Press endorses its entire contents, its author, or its publisher from the standpoint of ethics, philosophy, theology, or style. In order to provide a useful service to our customers, we have included books on this list which may be appropriate for youth and which contain content that is relevant to African American history. If you choose to use any of these books, you may want to read the book first or read and discuss the book’s contents with your child. If you have comments, suggestions, or questions, please e-mail us. Dust of the Earth—by Donnalynn Hess Amos Fortune, Free Man—by Elizabeth Yates Uncle Tom’s Cabin—by Harriet Beecher Stowe Meet Addy: an American girl—by Connie Porter God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse—by James Weldon Johnson Amazing Grace—by Mary Hoffman Up From Slavery—by Booker T. Washington I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: the Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl—by Joyce Hansen With the Might of Angels: the Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson—by Andrea Davis Pinkney Heroes in Black History: True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes—by Dave and Neta Jackson Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History—by Von Hardesty American Patriots: Answering the Call to Freedom—by Rick Santorum Marian Anderson: a Great Singer—by Patricia and Frederick McKissack The Poems of Phillis Wheatley—by Julian D.
    [Show full text]
  • Reflections on Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, C
    Morris, Michael (2013) Atlantic Archipelagos: A Cultural History of Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, c.1740-1833. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3863/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] Atlantic Archipelagos: A Cultural History of Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, c.1740-1833. Michael Morris Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Department of English Literature School of Critical Studies University of Glasgow September 2012 2 Abstract This thesis, situated between literature, history and memory studies participates in the modern recovery of the long-obscured relations between Scotland and the Caribbean. I develop the suggestion that the Caribbean represents a forgotten lieu de mémoire where Scotland might fruitfully ‘displace’ itself. Thus it examines texts from the Enlightenment to Romantic eras in their historical context and draws out their implications for modern national, multicultural, postcolonial concerns. Theoretically it employs a ‘transnational’ Atlantic Studies perspective that intersects with issues around creolisation, memory studies, and British ‘Four Nations’ history.
    [Show full text]
  • Reproductions Supplied by EDRS Are the Best That Can Be Made from the Original Document
    DOCUMENT RESUME ED 442 131 CS 217 179 TITLE Perspectives on the Slave Narrative. [Lesson Plan]. SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DC.; Council of the Great City Schools, Washington, DC.; MCI WorldCom, Arlington, VA. PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 7p.; Also sponsored by the National Trust for the Humanities. AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans.html. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Autobiographies; *Black Literature; High Schools; Language Arts; Lesson Plans; *Racial Discrimination; *Slavery; *United States Literature; Writing Assignments IDENTIFIERS *Slave Narratives ABSTRACT This lesson plan introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition today. The lesson focuses on the "Narrative of William W. Brown, An American Slave" (1847), which, along with the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (1845), set the pattern for this genre and its combination of varied literary traditions and devices. To help students recognize the complex nature of the slave narrative, the lesson explores Brown's work from a variety of perspectives. Students first consider the narrative as a historical record, examining episodes that describe the conditions Brown lived through as a slave. Next, they examine it as a work of literature, investigating the rhetorical techniques Brown uses to shape his experiences into a story. Third, students consider the work's political dimension, weighing the arguments that Brown presents as an abolitionist spokesman and the degree to which his narrative should be treated as political rhetoric.
    [Show full text]
  • African American Civil Rights Movements to End Slavery, Racism and Oppression in the Post Slavery Era: a Critique of Booker T
    East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences EAJESS July – September 2021, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 62-68 ISSN: 2714-2132 (Online), 2714-2183 (Print), Copyright © The Author(s) Published by G-Card DOI: https://doi.org/10.46606/eajess2021v02i03.0104 URL: http://eajess.ac.tz African American Civil Rights Movements to End Slavery, Racism and Oppression in the Post Slavery Era: A Critique of Booker T. Washington’s Integration Ideology *Nancy Bwalya Lungu and Alice Dhliwayo, PhD Solusi University, Zimbabwe *Corresponding Mail: [email protected] Abstract: The Transatlantic Slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal and subsequently other European kingdoms were able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the West Coast of Africa and took those that they enslaved to Europe. This saw a lot of African men and women transported to Europe and America to work on the huge plantations that the Whites owned. The transportation of these Africans exposed them to inhumane treatments which they faced even upon the arrival at their various destinations. The emancipation Proclamation signed on 1st January 1863 by the United States President Abraham Lincoln saw a legal stop to slave trade. However, the African Americans that had been taken to the United States and settled especially in the Southern region faced discrimination, segregation, violence and were denied civil rights through segregation laws such as the Jim Crow laws and lynching, based on the color of their skin. This forced them especially those that had acquired an education to rise up and speak against this treatment.
    [Show full text]
  • The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration
    \\jciprod01\productn\C\CRN\104-4\CRN403.txt unknown Seq: 1 16-JUL-19 10:06 THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT: MODERN SLAVERY, CAPITALISM, AND MASS INCARCERATION Michele Goodwin† INTRODUCTION ........................................... 900 R I. A PRODIGIOUS CYCLE: PRESERVING THE PAST THROUGH THE PRESENT ..................................... 909 R II. PRESERVATION THROUGH TRANSFORMATION: POLICING, SLAVERY, AND EMANCIPATION ........................ 922 R A. Conditioned Abolition ........................ 923 R B. The Punishment Clause: Slavery’s Preservation Through Transformation ...................... 928 R C. Re-appropriation and Transformation of Black Labor Through Black Codes, Crop Liens, Lifetime Labor, Debt Peonage, and Jim Crow . 933 R 1. Black Codes .............................. 935 R 2. Convict Leasing ........................... 941 R 3. Coercion, Fraud, and Debt Peonage ........ 946 R 4. Children and Binding Out: Apprenticeship Laws ..................................... 949 R 5. Conclusion ................................ 950 R III. MODERN SLAVERY’S TRANSFORMATIONS ............... 952 R A. Incarceration and Preservation................ 953 R B. Transformation Through Perversity and Complicity ................................... 960 R 1. Federal Prisons and Labor ................. 967 R 2. State Prisons.............................. 968 R C. The Rise of Privatized Prisons ................. 970 R D. Conclusion ................................... 975 R IV. REFORMING AND TRANSFORMING ..................... 975 R † Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s
    [Show full text]
  • Up from Slavery an Autobiography
    Up From Slavery An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington 1901 TheBestNotes Study Guide by Diane Clapsaddle TheBestNotes.com Copyright © 2007, All Rights Reserved Distribution without the written consent of TheBestNotes.com is strictly prohibited. KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING Franklin County, Virginia; Malden, West Virginia; Hampton, Virginia; Tuskegee, Alabama; various states in America and various countries in Europe 1858-1901 LIST OF CHARACTERS MAJOR CHARACTERS Booker T. Washington Because this is his autobiography, his ideas and philosophies, dominate the narrative. He takes us from his birth to 1901 and shows us all the experiences he had in his journey out of slavery to dignity. Booker’s Mother This character doesn’t actually speak much in the narrative, but she is a very strong presence because of her influence on her son’s life. Mrs. Ruffner Booker comes to work in her house and it’s from her that he learns the value of cleanliness. She becomes a great friend who gives him support whenever her needs it. General Samuel C. Armstrong He is the most dominant influence in Booker’s life. As the founder of the Hampton Institute, he provides many young Negroes the opportunity for an education, including Booker. Miss Mary F. Mackie She is the admission counselor when Booker seeks entrance to Hampton. She tests him through the value of cleanliness and work before she will admit him to the school. Miss Olive A. Davidson She is Booker’s second wife and has a very strong influence over Tuskegee in the eight years she is there. CONFLICT Protagonist The Protagonist is Booker T.
    [Show full text]