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Jennifer C. James is associate professor at George Washington University and author of A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature, the Civil War-World War II (2007). She is currently at work on two books, Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery and Black Jack: Andrew Jackson and African American Cultural Memory. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and collections, including American Literary History, The African American Review, Feminist Studies, MELUS, Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-first Century, and Keywords in African American Studies.