Word by word : emancipation and the act of writing / Christopher Hager.

"One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North--or so we have long bel...

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Main Author: Hager, Christopher, 1974-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Physical Description:311 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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