Word by Word

Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing is a 2013 history book and analysis of writings by American slaves and former slaves. It was written by Christopher Hager and published by Harvard University Press.

Word by Word
Original cover
AuthorChristopher Hager
SubjectUnited States Civil War history, African-American literary criticism
Published2013 (Harvard University Press)[1]
Pages328[1]
ISBN978-0-674-05986-3 [2]

Reception

The book received the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University).[3]

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