Before Equiano John Wilkes Doubling and Halving

Doubling and Halving

The authors review disaster theory

To what extent should lawyers and lawmakers be influenced by considerations of morality

All the grownups said it was suicide

and conservation

Before Equiano John Wilkes Doubling and HalvingIn the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal