Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Marrant
- First Published: 1785
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1755–1785
- Setting: South Carolina, the Atlantic Ocean, and England
- Principal Characters: John Marrant
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Freedom, Language or languages, Sin or Original sin, Missions or missionaries, Religion, Friendship, Spiritual life or spirituality, Native Americans or American Indians, American Revolution, Eighteenth century, Christianity, Faith, Kidnapping, Adventure, Miracles, Revelation, Sermons
- Locales: South (U.S.), England, South Carolina, Oceans
Form and Content
On account of its author’s freeman status at birth, John Marrant’s autobiographical work is not, strictly speaking, a slave narrative. Yet because Marrant was a black man who experienced capture and enslavement at the hands of American Indians, most scholars place his work in the slave-narrative tradition. Another reason for classifying his work as a slave narrative is that Marrant was an influential figure in the development of that genre.
Marrant’s narrative is both the story of his Indian captivity and a spiritual autobiography. The two sections...
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