11019 Austen Letters free and enslaved Black writers

free and enslaved Black writers allied themselves with abolition and used their poetry to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility

1072 page bibliography has an introduction with each chapter

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11019 Austen Letters free and enslaved Black writersWith a frontispiece by Aubrey Hammond and sixteen other illustrations. Melville constructs a biography largely based on excerpts from Lady Mary's letters. She is most famous today for introducing the early form of smallpox vaccine to Britain, which she had witnessed while living in the Ottoman Empire with her husband, and for her letters from Turkey. She corresponded with many important figures of her time, wrote poetry and essays, and argued for the