Stories of freedom

Title: Stories of freedom

Author: Marijke Huisman

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789087045098

Condition: Good

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Description:
In order to turn public opinion against the slave trade and slavery, former slaves sometimes spoke out themselves. In the English-speaking world, dozens of autobiographies by ex-slaves appeared from the late eighteenth century onwards. Some of these texts were also published in the Netherlands, in translation, even long after the abolition of slavery. Marijke Huisman follows the traces of a number of slave autobiographies through Great Britain, the United States and the Netherlands. She examines the role that these testimonies played in the production of knowledge about slavery and the slavery past. The result is a fascinating history of interpretation that begins in 1789 with the anti-slavery movement and leads via, among other things, the April Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power, the second feminist wave and the 'canon wars' to current debates about dealing with the colonial slavery past and the 'slavery' of Muslim women.