Category: Slavery

  • The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction Rutgers University Press 2004-09-29 202 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3481-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3482-4 Eve Allegra Raimon, Professor, Arts & Humanities University of Southern Maine Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and…

  • In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom American Literary History Volume 14, Number 3 (Fall 2002) DOI: 10.1093/alh/14.3.505 pages 505-359 P. Gabrielle Foreman, Professor of English and American Studies Occidental College Partus sequitur ventrem. The child follows the condition of the mother. US slave law and custom…

  • In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas.

  • The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt Louisiana State University Press March 1999 312 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 9780807124529 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to…

  • George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life Louisiana State University Press 2001 471 Trim: 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8071-2586-1 Benjamin R. Justesen Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the…

  • The Louisiana Metoyers American Visions June, 2000 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The Metoyer family of Louisiana provides an intriguing ample of the degree to which class, race and economic lines were blurred in early America. The Metoyers were both slaves and masters; in that regard, they were not unique. They were singular…

  • Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them.

  • Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force…

  • The Woman of Colour Broadview Press 2007-01-01 268 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781551111766 / 1551111764 Written by: Anonymous Edited by: Lyndon J. Dominique, Assistant Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield,…