Book contents
- Bearing Witness
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Bearing Witness
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Narrated Self
- 2 “I Was Free, I Still Wasn’t Free”
- 3 The Construction and Reconstruction of Survivor Identities
- 4 Bearing Witness
- 5 Assuming “Full” Freedom
- 6 Antislavery Strategies and the Survivor as Activist
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Table of Narratives analyzed
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
- Bearing Witness
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Bearing Witness
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Narrated Self
- 2 “I Was Free, I Still Wasn’t Free”
- 3 The Construction and Reconstruction of Survivor Identities
- 4 Bearing Witness
- 5 Assuming “Full” Freedom
- 6 Antislavery Strategies and the Survivor as Activist
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Table of Narratives analyzed
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Introduction provides the context of contemporary antislavery movement, the value and source of survivor narratives, an explanation of the methodology adopted, and overview of the books aims and contents.
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- Bearing WitnessContemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement, pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022