Category: Slavery

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World Texas A&M University Press 2010-07-12 168 pages 6 x 9, Illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60344-192-6 Edited by: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Christopher Morris, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With the recent election of the nation’s first…

  • Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation Harvard University Press February 2012 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map Hardcover ISBN 9780674047747 Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law University of Michigan Jean M. Hébrard, Historian and Visiting Professor…

  • Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…

  • Signifying the tragic mulatto: A semiotic analysis of Alex Haley’s Queen Howard Journal of Communications Volume 7, Issue 2 (1996) pages 113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361718 Mark P. Orbe Karen E. Strother Employing a semiotic framework, this article explores the signification process of the lead character in Alex Haley’s Queen. This popular miniseries is significant because a…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…

  • The Bondage of Race and the Freedom of Transcendence in Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English since 2000 Durham University Issue Number 4 (September 2001) Briallen Hopper, Lecturer in English Yale University Frederick Douglass has a strange way of describing what he feels like…

  • Tracing Trails of Blood on Ice: Commemorating “The Great Escape” in 1861-62 of Indians and Blacks into Kansas Negro History Bulletin Jaunary-December 2001 Willard B. Johnson My heart raced and emotions surged before I consciously grasped the meaning of what I was reading in that footnote. Reading all the footnotes had become routine for me,…

  • An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt Drake University February 1988 121 pages Harold James Bruxvoort A Dissertation Presented to The College of Arts and Sciences Drake University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Arts Summary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author…

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (review) Southwestern Historical Quarterly Volume 115, Number 2, October 2011 E-ISSN: 1558-9560 Print ISSN: 0038-478X pages 214-215 William M. Clements, Professor of English Arkansas State University Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico, Norman: Oklahoma University Press,…

  • Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press January 2009 348 pages 228 x 152 mm; 0.6kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521884655 Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Professor of Modern History Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in…