"In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afro…
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"Delves into the history of how slave labor helped build the US economy and many historic structures, as well as how people benefited in different ways from the practice of slavery"--Publisher's website
"Based on a comprehensive analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, this study foregrounds survivors' voices, illustrating that an anti-slavery movement that listens to the experiences of enslaved people can lead to important insights and enable the implementation of m…
"Based on a comprehensive analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, this study foregrounds survivors' voices, illustrating that an anti-slavery movement that listens to the experiences of enslaved people can lead to important insights and enable the implementation of m…
Since the 1990s, modern slavery has been recognized as a global problem, with campaigners around the world providing assessments of its nature and extent, its drivers, and possible solutions for ending it. However, largely absent from the global antislavery movement's discourse …
Since the 1990s, modern slavery has been recognized as a global problem, with campaigners around the world providing assessments of its nature and extent, its drivers, and possible solutions for ending it. However, largely absent from the global antislavery movement's discourse …
The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who--as these two volumes revea…
