02821nam 2200625Ia 450 991045188340332120200520144314.00-8078-6353-X(CKB)1000000000452650(EBL)413267(OCoLC)476236588(SSID)ssj0000191820(PQKBManifestationID)11166026(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191820(PQKBWorkID)10184732(PQKB)11153993(MiAaPQ)EBC413267(Au-PeEL)EBL413267(CaPaEBR)ebr10075641(EXLCZ)99100000000045265020030811d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiberation historiography[electronic resource] African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861 /John ErnestChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (442 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5521-9 0-8078-2853-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-412) and index.The theater of history -- Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history -- Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history -- The assembly of history : orations and conventions -- Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American -- Press and the work of history -- Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-19th-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory. Here, John Ernest demonstrates that African Americans created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical and the political are inextricably connected.African AmericansHistoryTo 1863HistoriographyAfrican American historiansHistory18th centuryAfrican American historiansHistory19th centuryHistoriographyUnited StatesHistory18th centuryHistoriographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.African AmericansHistoryHistoriography.African American historiansHistoryAfrican American historiansHistoryHistoriographyHistoryHistoriographyHistory973/.0496073Ernest John902799MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451883403321Liberation historiography2018138UNINA