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Table of Contents: “…Margins and centers, new and old narrations : biblical voices, great awakening christianity and American autobiographical traditions -- I did not make myself so-- : Samson Occom and American religious autobiography -- John Marrant, John Smith, Jesus : borders, tangles and knots in marrants 1785 narrative -- Moses and the Egyptian: religious authority in Olaudah Equianos interesting narrative -- Gender, Christian suffering and the ministers voice: submission and agency in Abigail Abbot Baileys memoirs -- Devotion and dissent: Jarena Lees rhetoric of conversion and call -- Finding a way in the forest: religious discourse of race and justice in William Apess autobiography -- Religious imperatives, democratic voices, and autobiographical preoccupations.…”

Table of Contents: “…Several lives in one : Frederick Douglass's autobiographical art -- They knew what time it was : African Americans and the coming of the Civil War -- No desperate hero : manhood and freedom in a Union soldier's experience -- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : a relationship in language, politics, and memory -- "For something beyond the battlefield" : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War -- A quarrel forgotten or a revolution remembered? …”

Table of Contents: “…The ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright -- 4. "Bias incident" at Staten Island's Miller Field: a tale of two neighborhoods / Howard Blum -- 5. …”