Word by Word explained
Word by Word |
Author: | Christopher Hager |
Subject: | United States Civil War history, African-American literary criticism |
Published: | 2013 (Harvard University Press) |
Pages: | 328 |
Isbn: | 978-0-674-05986-3 |
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing is a 2013 historical book and analysis of a collection of writings by American slaves and befreed slaves. It was written by Christopher Hager and published by Harvard University Press.
Reception
The book received the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University).
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- Kevin Eagan, "Interview with Christopher Hager, Author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing", Critical Margins, August 14, 2013.