Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth CenturyVincent Carretta University Press of Kentucky, 2003 M12 31 - 400 pages Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Note on the Texts and Editorial Policy | 17 |
A Note on Money | 18 |
Notes on the Illustrations | 19 |
BRITON HAMMON | 20 |
JUPITER HAMMON | 26 |
JAMES ALBERT UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW | 32 |
PHILLIS WHEATLEY | 59 |
JOHNSON GREEN | 134 |
BELINDA | 142 |
QUOBNA OTTOBAH CUGOANO | 145 |
OLAUDAH EQUIANO | 185 |
BENJAMIN BANNEKER | 319 |
GEORGE LIELE | 325 |
DAVID GEORGE | 333 |
BOSTON KING | 351 |
FRANCIS WILLIAMS | 72 |
IGNATIUS SANCHO | 77 |
JOHN MARRANT | 110 |
VENTURE SMITH | 369 |
Biographical Sketches | 389 |
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