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  2. David Cook (literary critic) - Wikipedia

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    David Cook (1929 – 30 March 2003) was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist. [1] As a professor of literature at the Universities of Makerere and Ilorin , he played an important role in encouraging literature in East Africa .

  3. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.

  4. Malinda Russell - Wikipedia

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    Malinda Russell (ca. 1812 – ?) was a free African-American woman from Tennessee who earned her living as a cook and published the first known cookbook by an African-American woman. The book is historically significant, as it shows that African-American Southern cooking was not solely the domain of poverty cooking, but provides evidence of a ...

  5. Skeletons on the Zahara - Wikipedia

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    He spotted an old leather-bound book on a shelf with the title Sufferings In Africa. [8] Originally published in 1817 and sub-titled An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, the book is a first-hand account written by Captain James Riley, an American sea captain wrecked off the coast of North Africa in his ship Commerce ...

  6. What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

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    What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking is a cookbook written in 1881 by former slave Abby Fisher, who had moved from Mobile, Alabama, to San Francisco.It was believed to be the first cookbook written by an African-American, before Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866) was rediscovered.

  7. Anti-Tom literature - Wikipedia

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    Also called plantation literature, these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States. Books in the genre attempted to show that slavery was beneficial to African Americans and that the evils of slavery, as depicted in Stowe's book, were overblown and incorrect.

  8. Category:Novels about American slavery - Wikipedia

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    This category includes novels about slavery set in the area that is, or became, the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

  9. Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)This is a bibliography of works regarding the internal or domestic slave trade in the United States (1776–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves).

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