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Frederick Douglass in Chinese

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African American literature of slavery has a translation history dating from at least the 1840s.  One of the Project's collections addresses this history, with special attention to translations of Frederick Douglass published from the 19th-century to the present day.  The collection includes podcast readings of selected chapters from Douglass' 1845 narrative in French, Hebrew, Spanish, and most recently a Chinese reading by Prof. John Zou.  Read more...
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Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave

by Geoffrey Sauer last modified 2006-02-27 18:20

Aphra Behn's short novel (1688) about a a slave uprising in the British colony of Surinam. Digitized by Terri Palmer, the EServer, 1996.

The link address is: http://eserver.org/fiction/oroonoko/