American Slave Narratives and the Book of Job: Frederick Douglass’s and Nat Turner’s Quests for Scriptural Authority and Authenticity

Slave narratives influenced nineteenth-century American religious culture and history; through the slave narrative, modern readers experience the African-American struggle for freedom and personhood in the antebellum South. While the slave narrative stimulated identity- formation, once identity was...

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Main Author: Francis, Hattie
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3356
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4355&context=etd