{"product_id":"the-hart-sisters-early-african-caribbean-writers-evangelicals-and-radicals-hardcover","title":"The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMoira Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMoira Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Antigua. These members of the \"free colored\" community who married white men and played an active role as educators, antislavery activists, and Methodist evangelicals were also among the first African Caribbean female writers. This exceptional volume offers for the first time a collection of their writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the records of the Hart sisters are rare and original testimony from black women of the time, they will be of great interest to the modern scholar. Autobiographical and biographical narrative, along with antislavery tracts, hymns, devotional poetry, and religious documents vividly reveal the lives of these courageous women. Their writings illuminate the complex of racial, spiritual, and class- and gender-based divisions, as well as attitudes, of Anglophone Caribbean society. Moira Ferguson's introduction situates the Hart sisters in historical context and explains how their writings helped establish a specific black Antiguan cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaughters of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Antigua. These members of the 'free colored' community who married white men and played an active role as educators, antislavery activists, and Methodist evangelicals were also among the first African Caribbean female writers. this exceptional volume offers for the first time a collection of their writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoira Ferguson is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of \u003ci\u003eSubject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEast Caribbean: Gender and Colonial Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 8.83 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703748292915,"sku":"9780803219847","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/raWpj_i8ZZ9780803219847.webp?v=1763337669","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-hart-sisters-early-african-caribbean-writers-evangelicals-and-radicals-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}