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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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Reading the Memoirs of Boston King, A Black Preacher

by Geoffrey Sauer last modified 2008-08-01 03:57

Autobiographical memoir of Boston King, a fugitive slave from South Carolina who became a teacher and minister in Sierra Leone, serialized in 1798 in The Methodist Magazine. A reading performance by Prof. Neal Lester.

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