The story comes to us from the female victim in the incident, elizabeth Amwood. One white
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It should be noted here that Woodard died before this book was published; it is a shame that
he could not see his daring work enter debate. Praise must go to Joyce and McBride …

One of the first extended and theoretically informed investigations of queer theory's racial
inscription, Queer Race understands race as inextricably sexualized, as sexuality is always …

Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men.
Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse …

Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world,
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Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical
strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of …

Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the
American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman …

Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who
negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records …

For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the
American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment …

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Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over …