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

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

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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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