I just get my pistol and shoot him right down
Eric Foner: Slave-Dealing, 22 March 2018
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
by Anne C. Bailey.
Cambridge, 197 pp., £19.99, November 2017,978 1 316 64348 8 Show More
by Anne C. Bailey.
Cambridge, 197 pp., £19.99, November 2017,
“... to the slaves’ African pasts’ in their work routines, religious practices and folkways such as ring dances. There is less on how Africans became African-Americans, or the extent to which they were influenced by the values of the society around them. When emancipation finally arrived, Bailey notes, the former slaves saw the right to vote ‘as the heart and ... ”