Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment

Blacks in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Africans --- Slaves' writings, English --- English literature --- African literature (English) --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Ethnology --- English slaves' writings --- Historiography. --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Sancho, Ignatius, --- Wheatley, Phillis, --- Hammon, Briton. --- Equiano, Olaudah, --- Sancho, Charles Ignatius, --- Peters, Phillis Wheatley, --- Peters, Phillis, --- Wheatley, Phyllis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English-speaking countries --- Anglophone countries --- Countries, Anglophone --- Countries, English-speaking --- Intellectual life --- African literature (English). --- Aufsatzsammlung. --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Literatur. --- Schwarze. --- Sklaverei --- Slaves' writings, English. --- Historiography --- Black authors. --- History and criticism --- Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (Equiano, Olaudah). --- 1700-1799. --- Geschichte 1760-1880. --- Atlantischer Raum. --- English-speaking countries. --- USA. --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature. --- English enslaved persons' writings --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons' writings, English