Faith Barter explores antebellum Black authorship in new book
A new book by CSWS affiliate Faith Barter, assistant professor of English at the UO, explores Black writers as architects of legal possibility in the antebellum South. Her book, Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2025) was published by University of North Carolina Press. She received a 2019-20 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for this project.
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