| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Ed. by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. vi, 272 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8131-2203-1.)

It is not uncommon for students to assume that African American autobiography and literature first emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, as northern and British abolitionism and the consolidation of southern proslavery ideology provided a context for an apparent explosion of African American slave narratives. Yet, as this excellent collection of essays demonstrates, black autobiographical writings had begun to appear at least a half century earlier. Against the shifting backdrop of Enlightenment and revolutionary transformations, black authors (and white editors) grappled with the issue of identity, and the essays in this volume quite significantly broaden our comprehension of race and authorship during an inherently volatile formative era.

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