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    A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... En savoir plus

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    The Delectable Negro

    Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    par Vincent Woodard ...
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    Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their ... En savoir plus

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    Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    par Sidney W. Mintz ...
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    10 heure 18 min

    In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven sugar's origins are as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use ... En savoir plus

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  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

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    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... En savoir plus

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  • Disowning Slavery

    Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

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    In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970s it was the subject of the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi. Since then, scholarly interest in slavery has proliferated ever more widely. In ... En savoir plus

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  • A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass

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  • Race, Theft, and Ethics

    Property Matters in African American Literature

    Collections series Southern Literary Studies
    In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture, even as ... En savoir plus

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  • Within the Circle

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