001479153 000__ 05675nam\a22011295i\4500 001479153 001__ 1479153 001479153 003__ DE-B1597 001479153 005__ 20231102071314.0 001479153 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479153 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479153 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479153 020__ $$a9780674067486 001479153 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674067486$$2doi 001479153 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)177951 001479153 035__ $$a(OCoLC)827235538 001479153 035__ $$a(OCoLC)840444021 001479153 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479153 0410_ $$aeng 001479153 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479153 050_4 $$aPS153.N5$$bH17 2013 001479153 072_7 $$aLIT004040$$2bisacsh 001479153 1001_ $$aHager, Christopher,$$eauthor. 001479153 24510 $$aWord by Word :$$bEmancipation and the Act of Writing /$$cChristopher Hager. 001479153 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479153 264_4 $$c©2012 001479153 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b11 halftones 001479153 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479153 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479153 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479153 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479153 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tIllustrations --$$tIntroduction: A Colored Man's Constitution --$$t1. Black Literacy in the White Mind --$$t2. The Private Life of the Literate Slave --$$t3. Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom --$$t4. The Written We --$$t5. Petition and Protest in the Occupied South --$$t6. Black Ink, White Pages --$$tConclusion: Up from the South --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001479153 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479153 520__ $$aOne of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North-or so we have long believed. But as Christopher Hager reveals, a few enslaved African Americans managed to become literate in spite of all prohibitions, and during the halting years of emancipation, thousands more seized the chance to learn. The letters and diaries of these novice writers, unpolished and hesitant yet rich with voice, show ordinary black men and women across the South using pen and paper to make sense of their experiences. Through an unprecedented gathering of these forgotten writings-from letters by individuals sold away from their families, to petitions from freedmen in the army to their new leaders, to a New Orleans man's transcription of the Constitution-Word by Word rewrites the history of emancipation. The idiosyncrasies of these untutored authors, Hager argues, reveal the enormous difficulty of straddling the border between slave and free. These unusual texts, composed by people with a unique perspective on the written word, force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. 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