Unchained Voices

by Carretta, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780813190761
• ISBN10: 0813190762
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-31
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
A Note on the Texts and Editorial Policy	17	(1)
A Note on Money	18	(1)
Notes on the Illustrations	19	(1)
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man (Boston, 1760)	20	(6)
Briton Hammon
Poems: An Evening Thought (New York, 1760)	26	(6)
Jupiter Hammon
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess (Hartford, 1778)
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by Himself (Bath, 1772)	32	(27)
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
Poems: An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of...George Whitefield (Boston, 1770)	59	(13)
Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773) [selections]
``To His Excellency General Washington'' (Providence, 1775)
``An Ode'' (London, 1774)	72	(5)
Francis Williams
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. in Two Volumes. to Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (London, 1782) [selections]	77	(33)
Ignatius Sancho
A Narrative of the Lord's wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (London, 1785)	110	(24)
John Marrant
The Life and Confession of Johnson Green, Who is to Be Executed this day, August 17th, 1786, for the Atrocious Crime of Burglary; Together with His Last and Dying Words (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1786)	134	(8)
Johnson Green
``Petition of an African Slave, to the Legislature of Massachusetts'' (1782), from The American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, Prose and Poetical. For June 1787 (Philadelphia, 1787)	142	(3)
Belinda
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa (London, 1787) [abridged]	145	(40)
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (London, 1789; ninth edition, 1794) [abridged]	185	(134)
Olaudah Equiano
Copy of a Letter From Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State, with His Answer (Philadelphia, 1792)	319	(6)
Benjamin Banneker
``An Account of several Baptist Churches, consisting chiefly of Negro Slaves: particularly of one at Kingston, in Jamaica; and another at Savannah in Georgia'' (London, 1793)	325	(8)
George Liele
``An Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa; given by himself in a Conversation with Brother Rippon of London, and Brother Pearce of Birmingham'' (London, 1793-1797)	333	(18)
David George
``Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher. Written by Himself, during his Residence at Kingswood-School'' (London, 1798)	351	(18)
Boston King
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But resident above sixty years in the United States of America. Related by Himself (New London, Conn., 1798)	369	(20)
Venture Smith
Appendix: Biographical Sketches	389