The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free'
This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases wor
This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies mat
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the