1st Edition
Antebellum Slave Narratives Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa
1. "Speaking Guinea and a Mixture of Everything Else": The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass Re-visited 2. William Wells Brown: Subtle Whispers of Slave Culture, Pan-Africanism & Insurgency 3. "Moses Is Got De Charm": Harriet Tubman’s Mosaic Persona 4. Harriet Jacobs: A Larger Discussion of the John Kuner Parade and Other Cultural Recollections 5. Discourse on the Slave Narrative and a New Interpretation on Black Anti-Slavery Ideology
Biography
Jermaine Archer is an Assistant Professor of History in the American Studies Department at SUNY, College at Old Westbury. His essay "Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era" recently appeared in Michael Gomez ed., Diasporic Africa. He has also contributed essays on the significance of dreams in the African-American folk tradition and on the scholarship and activism of George P. Rawick in the Encyclopedia of African-American Folklore.
