Before Equiano John Wilkes All the grownups said it

All the grownups said it was suicide

student protests had shut down the city's largest university

The alien abduction phenomenon helps us think about how people who feel left out create their own stories and fashion truths that square with their own experience of the world

The authors review disaster theory

Before Equiano John Wilkes All the grownups said itIn the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal