A History of Afro-American Literature (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Blyden Jackson
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary history
- Time of Work: 1746-1895
- Setting: Colonial America; the United States
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, United States or Americans, Racism, Colonialism, Slavery or slaves, Literature, Poetry or poets
- Locales: United States, American colonies
Blyden Jackson’s ambitious history of Afro-American literature begins propitiously with this substantial volume, which traces the history of the slavery of black people and carries its consideration to the period when the United States was moving from an agrarian society, much of it formerly dependent upon the productivity of its slaves, to an industrial society that had to devise ways to accommodate the needs of those who had been displaced from farm jobs, black and white alike.
Jackson’s book is divided into sections that consider the age of apprenticeship and the age of...
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