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...Shawn Salvant Duke University Press 2007 Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives . By Jenny Sharpe. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xxvi, 187 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial...

...Teresa A. Goddu © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860 . By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348 pp. 2009. $39.95. Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions...

...Jennifer Greeson Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America . By Chakkalakal Tess . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2011 . 145 pp. $40.00 . Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance . By Reynolds Larry J...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Arthur Riss. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. viii, 238 pp. $80.00. Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 . By Maurice S. Lee...

...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...

... in the Age of Atlantic Slavery . By Jared Hickman . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 528 pp. Cloth, $81.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 The two books under review explore how the racial formations of background...

...Madhu Dubey Since the 1970s, African American novelists have persistently drawn on antirealist genres (including science fiction, fantasy, ghost stories, and magic realism) to revisit the history of slavery. Focusing on literary and mass-market fiction by authors such as Stephen Barnes, David...

...Elizabeth Freeman © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850. By Christine Levecq. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2008. xii, 306 pp. $35.00...

.... Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel. By Edlie L. Wong. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 337 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature. Ed...

... Slavery. By Bryan Wagner. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. vii, 307 pp. $35.00. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature. Ed. Michael J. Drexler and Ed White. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press. 2008. vii, 176 pp. Paper, $25.00...

...Bryce Traister Abstract Although not typically read as either a religious text or a narrative preoccupied with religious issues, Herman Melville’s novella of maritime slave revolution and recontainment demonstrates how antebellum Americans came to “believe” in slavery. Focusing on the narrative’s...

...Stephen Knadler [email protected] Black Madness::Mad Blackness . By Therí Alyce Pickens . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2019 . xvi, 152 pp. Cloth, $94.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book available. Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery...

...Ajay Kumar Batra Abstract This article examines the role of theft as a catalyst of communal cohesion and a practice of citizenship in the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans. Historical scholars of Atlantic slavery largely have portrayed theft as a strategic adaptation that enslaved...

... Sharpe . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 175 pp. Cloth, $84.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project . By Catherine A. Stewart . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xv, 353 pp. Paper...

...Gwen Bergner Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. This special issue focuses on the plantation, the postplantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how...

...Katherine Biers Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion . By Jonathan Auerbach . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2015 . ix, 232 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery . By Gregory Laski...

... Literary Imagination . By Farrell O’Gorman . Notre Dame, IN : Univ. of Notre Dame Press . 2017 . xi, 326 pp. Cloth, $ 60.00 ; e-book, $ 47.99 . Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature . By Erin Michael Salius . Gainesville : Univ...

...Alys Eve Weinbaum Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination . By Tillet Salamishah . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xvi , 224 pp. $23.95 ; e-book , $23.99 . Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows...

...Kenneth Kidd Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790–2010 . By Connolly Paula T. . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2013 . iii , 288 pp. Paper , $42.50 . Making Americans: Children’s Literature from 1930 to 1960 . By Schmidt Gary D. . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa...

...Cristobal Silva Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America . By Chiles Katy L. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2014 . xi , 315 pp. Cloth, $65.00 ; e-book available. Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes...