Copyright © 1998 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and William L. Andrews All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: five slave narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 / edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., William L. Andrews. p. cm. 1. Slaves-- United States--Biography. 2. Slaves--Caribbean Area-- Biography. 3. Afro-Americans--History--To 1863--Sources. 4. Slaves' writings, American. 5. American prose literature--Afro-American authors. 6. Autobiography--Afro-American authors. 7. Slavery in literature. I. Gates, Henry Louis. II. Andrews, William L., 1946-. E444.P56 1998 973'.0496073--dc21 98-34796
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