TY - BOOK AU - Hager,Christopher TI - Word by word: emancipation and the act of writing SN - 9780674067486 (ebook) PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Authors, American KW - 19th century KW - Political and social views KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - Social conditions KW - To 1964 KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - Civil rights KW - African Americans in literature KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Black Literacy in the White Mind -- The Private Life of the Literate Slave -- Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom -- The Written We -- Petition and Protest in the Occupied South -- Black Ink, White Pages UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/nationallibgovin/Doc?id=10652999 ER -