Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony 0814764169, 9780814764169

Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary conce

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Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony
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Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary conce

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Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists’ use of the genre within

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Conspiracy theorists claim impossible knowledge, such as knowledge of the doings of a secret world government. Yet they

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Goes beyond the myths and legends to reveal new insights into the real life of Sojourner Truth Many Americans have long

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Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was bor

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In Her Testimony is True, the Gospel of John is analysed as a rhetorical work that uses the metaphor of a trial in order

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"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refus

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Seeks to understand the Witnesses as individuals by making as many personal contacts as possible, attending meetings acr

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The article criticizes the Presbyterian Church’s recent Act and Testimony. The author claims it is excessive, leaving no

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