Examining material such as slave narratives, plantation diaries, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, as well as scenes like the auction block and minstrel show, Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity during slavery and its aftermath.
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Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195089844
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
