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050	0	4	_aPS153 _b.W673 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHager, Christopher, _d1974- _e1
245	1	0	_aWord by word : _bemancipation and the act of writing / _cChristopher Hager.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (311 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
340			_2rdacc _0http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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505	0	0	_aBlack Literacy in the White Mind -- _tThe Private Life of the Literate Slave -- _tWriting a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- _tThe Written We -- _tPetition and Protest in the Occupied South -- _tBlack Ink, White Pages.
520	0		_aConsigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings--or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors' perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom.
520	0		_aOne of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North--or so we have long believed. But as Christopher Hager reveals, a few enslaved African Americans managed to become literate in spite of all prohibitions, and during the halting years of emancipation, thousands more seized the chance to learn. The letters and diaries of these novice writers, unpolished and hesitant yet rich with voice, show ordinary black men and women across the South using pen and paper to make sense of their experiences. Through an unprecedented gathering of these forgotten writings--from letters by individuals sold away from their families, to petitions from freedmen in the army to their new leaders, to a New Orleans man's transcription of the Constitution--Word by Word rewrites the history of emancipation. The idiosyncrasies of these untutored authors, Hager argues, reveal the enormous difficulty of straddling the border between slave and free. These unusual texts, composed by people with a unique perspective on the written word, force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. For African Americans at the end of slavery, learning to write could be liberating and empowering, but putting their hard-won skill to use often proved arduous and daunting--a portent of the tenuousness of the freedom to come.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y19th century _xPolitical and social views.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xIntellectual life _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican American authors _xPolitical and social views.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xSocial conditions _yTo 1964.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xCivil rights.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xEmancipation _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=508428&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell