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17 hours ago · Slave writers George Moses Horton, Hannah Crafts, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and post–Civil War poets Albery A. Whitman and Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. wrote skillfully about racial and nonracial topics in ways that powerfully demonstrated black agency and subjectivity against a white rule that sought to strip them of it, while the work of Charles Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, and other ...
4 days ago · Williams Wells Brown: A Man of Letters. Women of Color (R)evolutionizing American Literature. updated: Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:13pm. Northeast Modern Language Association. deadline for submissions: Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
3 days ago · The resulting lead character of his autobiography is a boy, and then a young man, who is robbed of family and community and who gains an identity not only through his escape from Baltimore to Massachusetts but through his Douglass focuses on the struggle to achieve manhood and freedom.
5 days ago · Washington Irving (born April 3, 1783, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 28, 1859, Tarrytown, New York) was described as the “first American man of letters.” He wrote numerous works but is best known for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” which have been called the first American short stories.
4 days ago · Professor of History. ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. E: Marnie.Hughes-Warrington@anu.edu.au. Flag this profile. Jump to: Biography | Researcher's projects | Student projects | Publications | Projects and Grants | Related websites. Areas of expertise. Historical Studies. Research interests.
17 hours ago · The William H. Sheppard collection comprises several hundred works gathered by Hampton alumnus William Sheppard between 1890 and 1910 in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sheppard was not only the first Westerner to enter the Kuba Kingdom, he was the first Black American to collect African art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2 days ago · [1] The American Revolutionary Period (1775–1783) is notable for the political writings of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. An early novel is William Hill Brown 's The Power of Sympathy, published in 1791.
