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Liberation Historiography

African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861

by John Ernest ยท 2004

ISBN: 0807855219 9780807855218

Category: Literary Criticism / American / African American

Page count: 426

As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and