Download or read book Unchained Voices written by Vincent Carretta and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1996 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his introduction, Carretta reconstructs the historical and cultural context of the works, emphasizing the constraints of the eighteenth-century genres under which these authors wrote. The texts and annotations are based on extensive research in both published and manuscript holdings of archives in the United States and the United Kingdom. Appropriate for undergraduates as well as for scholars, Unchained Voices gives a clear sense of the major literary and cultural issues at the heart of writings in English by people of African descent.