Never Forgotten, Never Could be

di Lucy A. Delaney (Autore)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Autore)

Charles Ball (Autore)

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e-artnow, 2023

Never Forgotten, Never Could be gathers testimonies, memoirs, abolitionist writings, and documentary narratives that confront slavery's violence while preserving the intellectual, spiritual, and political lives of those who endured and opposed it. Moving between firsthand witness, antislavery polemic, travel account, and recollection, the collection situates individual survival within the larger history of the Atlantic slave system. Its most powerful passages render bondage, escape, family separation, resistance, and self-emancipation in voices of striking formal and emotional range. The contributors include formerly enslaved people, Black activists, abolitionist advocates, and observers whose writings emerged from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. Together, they illuminate the literary culture of abolition, the tradition of the slave narrative, and the continuing struggle over historical memory. Women's accounts of domestic exploitation and sexual vulnerability stand alongside narratives of flight, legal contestation, education, religious conviction, and organized resistance, broadening any single account of enslavement. This volume is indispensable for readers of African American literature, Atlantic history, and human-rights thought. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, circumstances, and political purposes across a wide archive of testimony. Readers will find both a valuable educational resource and a sustained dialogue about freedom, dignity, remembrance, and the enduring consequences of slavery.

• Autore: Lucy A. Delaney, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Charles Ball
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4066339579330