Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 Henry Louis Gates Jr. ebook
Publisher: Basic Books
Page: 656
ISBN: 9781887178983

In the eighteenth century, a small group of black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves into history. The battle lines were clear-literacy stood as the ultimate measure of humanity to the white arbiters of Western culture. If blacks could succeed in this sphere, they would prove that African and European humanity were inseparable. Without a literary record, blacks seemed predestined for slavery. The small but dedicated group-now known as the Black Atlantic writers-who stepped forward to meet this challenge published their autobiographies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They not only defied the popular opinion of the time that blacks were ...

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