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'Creole Testimonies will become the standard work on West Indian slave narratives and ex-slave narratives. Aljoe accurately points out that scholars and readers have long preferred the North American ex-slave narratives, such as Frederick Douglass's, because through them shines a single seemingly authentic author . . . Creole Testimonies argues for the centrality of these narratives based on their collaborative nature, in which several voices, including the slave's or freed-person's, argued about black humanity and the legitimacy of slavery and based on their reflection of West Indian culture and even Caribbean topography - fragments assembled by men and women into a meaningful whole.' - John Saillant, professor of English and History, Western Michigan University
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Book Title: Creole Testimonies
Book Subtitle: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838
Authors: Nicole N. Aljoe
Series Title: The New Urban Atlantic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012807
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-33810-4Published: 15 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34110-8Published: 15 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01280-7Published: 02 January 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 185
Topics: Fiction, Cultural Anthropology, North American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature