Reposted from DH the Blog: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World is now available for pre-order! You can pre-order on Amazon, of course, but the University of Pennsylvania Press is also having a 40% off spring sale with code SPRING20-FM RIGHT NOW and #WickedFlesh is listed (though no cover or … Continue reading #WickedFlesh Available for Pre-Order!!
Robin Mitchell, Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Athens; University of Georgia Press, 2018) Via UGA Press: "Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, … Continue reading BOOK: Mitchell on Vénus Noire, Race and Sex in 19th Century France
New edited volume by Dominique Rogers and Boris Lesueur, via Karthala: "L’affranchissement individuel au sein d’une société à esclaves ou esclavagiste informe sur des situations singulières ou exceptionnelles. Dans une perspective comparatiste, cet ouvrage examine les parcours originaux de ces affranchis entre le XIVe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle, et dans un vaste … Continue reading EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
Finally! Julius Scott, A Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery (Verso, 2018). via Verso: "Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colourful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. … Continue reading BOOK: Scott on the Common Wind of Black Radicalism During Slavery
Christopher L. Miller, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2008). "The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, … Continue reading BOOK: Miller on The French Atlantic Triangle
Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003). "A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals … Continue reading BOOK: Edwards on The Practice of Diaspora
Graham T. Nessler, An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). "Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish … Continue reading BOOK: Nessler on Haitian Revolution and Santo Domingo
Bernard Mauvois, Les marrons de la mer: évasions d’esclaves de la Martinique vers les îles de la Caraïbe (1833-1848) (Karthala, 2017). "La mer entourant les colonies insulaires de la Caraïbe n’a jamais été une barrière et encore moins un obstacle insurmontable, mais au contraire une véritable voie vers les autres colonies. En 1833, alors que … Continue reading BOOK: Mauvois on Fugitive Slaves of Martinique
Nikki M. Taylor, Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016). "Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has … Continue reading BOOK: Taylor on Margaret Garner
Kimberly M. Welch, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018). via UNC Press: "In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back … Continue reading BOOK: Welch on Black Litigants in the Antebellum South
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