Hearing Enslaved Voices

Sophie White is Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull.

• Introduction: Slave Narratives in British and French America, 1700–1848 Trevor Burnard and Sophie White Section One: Voices in the Archives 1. "Said Without Being Asked": Slavery, Testimony and Autobiography Sophie White 2. Fictions in the Archives: Jupiter alias Gamelle or the Tales of an Enslaved Peddler in the French New Orleans’ Court Cécile Vidal 3. Slave Judiciary Testimonies in the French Caribbean: What to Do with Them Dominique Rogers Section Two: Native Americans 4. A "Spanish American Squaw" in New England: Indian Ann’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom Linford D. Fisher 5. In the Borderlands of Race and Freedom (and Genre): Embedded Indian and African Slave Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England Margaret Ellen Newell 6. "She Said Her Answers Contained the Truth": Listening to and with Enslaved Witnesses in Eighteenth-Century New France Brett Rushforth Section Three: African Americans 7. Ideologies of the Age of Revolution and Emancipation in Enslaved African Narrative Aaron Spencer Fogleman 8. Slave Voice and the Legal Archive: The Case of the Freedom Suits Before the Paris Admiralty Court Miranda Spieler 9. "I Know I Have to Work": The Moral Economy of Labor Among Enslaved Women in Berbice, 1819–1834 Trevor Burnard 10. "An Anomalous Population": Re-captive Narratives in Antigua and the British Colonial Archive, 1807–1828 Anita Rupprecht Conclusion: Slave Testimonies: The Long View Emily Clark

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