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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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Prophets of Protest: Literary Abolitionism and the Aesthetics of Equality

by Antislavery Webmaster — last modified 2009-02-05 13:13 Copyright 2006 by the Antislavery Literature Project.

A 2006 talk by Dr. Timothy Patrick McCarthy (Harvard University), at the Arizona State University English department. From the Antislavery Literature Project, at Vimeo.

The link address is: http://www.vimeo.com/2567621