Impossible witnesses

by Dwight A. McBride

First published 2001 · 205 pages

About this book

Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.

  • African Americans in literature
  • Autobiography
  • Slaves
  • American prose literature
  • History and criticism
  • African American authors
  • Intellectual life
  • Slavery in literature

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