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The remembrance of New England's slave system and critique of its archive often concern scholars at the beginning of the second quarter of the twenty-first century.The archive of slavery has long been understood as more fragmented and incomplete than collections related to …
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An 1856 Black-authored autobiography, The Life of John Thompson , made significant advances in the genre of the American slave narrative. A runaway slave, whaler, folk theologian, and, ultimately, abolitionist author, Thompson expressed sympathy for a queer man trapped in slavery and …
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The planter, looking at his Negroes and seeing only Negroes, never knew. He might know that certain Negroes dressed up in cast-off clothes and received other Negroes, fed and danced and jumped up t...
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Abstract The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence (2023), by David Waldstreicher, analyzes Wheatley in her context in Revolutionary America. Waldstreicher provides reasonable interpretation of her poetry, especially fine for his understanding of her classical allusions. …
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Abstract This essay provides the theological background and the religious material culture context of Gabriel’s rebellion, Richmond, Virginia, 1800. Gabriel and some of his conspirators attended a covenanted Baptist church in Richmond. They adapted the idea of a covenant for a document …
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