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- Title
The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic.
- Authors
Rezek, Joseph
- Abstract
This essay advances the study of the Black Atlantic, or the cultural impact on Africans of the transatlantic slave trade experience, by considering the publication in the early 19th century of orations by black authors commemorating the abolition of the slave trade. A main point of reference is the work of pioneering Black Atlantic scholar Paul Gilroy, on which the article expands by focusing on the role of print culture in black and African American expression.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRINT culture; POLITICAL oratory; AFRICAN American literature -- History &; criticism; ANTISLAVERY movements; AFRICAN diaspora; ATLANTIC studies; NINETEENTH century; REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period)
- Publication
Early American Literature, 2010, Vol 45, Issue 3, p655
- ISSN
0012-8163
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/eal.2010.0033