Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death

by Christopher Freeburg

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In Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and domination weren't the overarching terms used for thinking about Black life? In pursuit of this question, Freeburg submits that current scholarship is too preoccupied with demonstrating enslaved Africans' acts of political resistance, and instead he considers Black social life beyond such concepts. He examines...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1478011440

ISBN13:9781478011446

Release Date:January 2021

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:152 Pages

Weight:0.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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