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Narrative of the Anti-Slavery Experience of a Minister in the Methodist E. Church, Who Was Twice Rejected by the Philadelphia Annual Conference, and Finally Deprived of a License to Preach for Being an Abolitionist
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...