Research Focus Group Talk: Origin Story: The Narrative of James Williams and the Formation of the African American Slave Narrative

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Teresa Goddu

November 1, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

4080 HSSB
UC Santa Barbara

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This talk provides a material history of the American Anti-Slavery Society’s first sponsored slave narrative, The Narrative of James Williams (1838), and illuminates how its publication and the controversy that surrounded it shaped the development of the genre as a whole.

Teresa Goddu is Associate Professor of English & American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (1997) and the forthcoming book, Selling Antislavery: U.S. Abolition and the Rise of Mass Media.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom RFG and the English Department’s American Cultures in Global Contexts Center

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November 1, 2018
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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