Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century

by Vincent Carretta

Book Overview

Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813190762
• ISBN13: 9780813190761
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Scholarly Masterpiece

Vincent Carretta's _Unchained Voices_ is a masterful anthology of black writers of the 18th century. This compilation--which includes well-known authors such as Phillis Wheatly and Olaudah Equiano, as well as more obscure writers like George Liele and Belinda--is invaluable to scholars of early American, African, and African-American literature. From criminals to Indian captives, the writers in Carretta's anthology illustrate the diversity of the African experience in the English-speaking world of the 18th century. Carretta's introduction and notes are brilliant, his attention to detail and tireless scholarship a model for other academics. While an excellent book for classroom use (I assign it in my survey courses of African-American literature), this anthology will also appeal to readers interested in beginnings of African-American literature.