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THE SPOKEN WORD; DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: PAINE, JEFFERSON AND THE SLAVES; PART TWO; CHAPTER FIVE The diasporic identity: language and the paradigms of liberation 327 $a'WORDS WALKING WITHOUT MASTERS': THE LANGUAGE OF THE DIASPORATHE CREOLISATION OF LANGUAGE: CREOLES, BLACK ENGLISH AND PATOIS; PARADIGMS OF LIBERATION: LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC; CHAPTER SIX The early slave narratives: Jupiter Hammon, John Marrant and Ottobah Gronniosaw; DISPLACEMENT AND DIASPORA: THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; MULATTO DISCOURSES: CHRISTIANITY AND EARLY SLAVE LITERATURE; JUPITER HAMMON: 'AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE'53; JOHN MARRANT: CULTURAL INTERLOCUTOR; GRONNIOSAW'S 'DELIVERANCE'; HERMENEUTICS AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES 327 $aCHAPTER SEVEN Phillis Wheatley: poems and lettersAN 'ETHIOPIAN SPEAKS'; 'YOUR LADYSHIP'S OBED'T SERVT'; TRANSLATION AND SALVATION; PHILIP QUAQUE AND PHILLIS WHEATLEY; RECOLLECTION AND REDEMPTION; CHAPTER EIGHT Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative; SYNCHRONISATION: WEST AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY AND RADICAL DISSENTING PROTESTANTISM; MOTHERLANDS AND RITES OF PASSAGE; AQUA VITAE; SALVATION?; THE SPIRIT AND THE BLACK CHURCH TRADITION; CHAPTER NINE Robert Wedderburn and mulatto discourse; 'ACKNOWLEDGE NO KING...ACKNOWLEDGE NO PRIEST'20 327 $a'CAN I CONTAIN MYSELF AT THIS?': WEDDERBURN'S HORRORS OF SLAVERY 38 330 $aThe first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the African diaspora, this study explores connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. 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