...Joycelyn Moody By Trudier Harris. New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi, 218 pp. Cloth, $55.00;paper, $18.95. By Christina Accomando. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $22.95. 2003 Book...

... demands and second, they recast Newsom and Flint as perpetrators. They accuse their masters and those who uphold the laws which forbid them sexual subjectivity. Christina Accomando notes that in Jacobs’s narrative “[t]he keepers of the laws become the outlaws, and her allegiance is to some higher...

... narrative to the stories circulated about her by white women of her day and to circumvent more generalized nineteenth-century myths about slave- women. Throughout, Accomando carefully explores how early U.S. laws...

... in the text as ST. 51 Andrews, To Tell a Free Story, 179–82. 52 Such hermeneutics continue in a number of contemporary critical read- ings of Truth’s text. Christina Accomando, for example, reads Truth’s advocacy of legal agency as “revealing the law as both an agent of oppres...