Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 18901930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts in community settings to certify to each other that lynch victims were not the isolated brutes that dominant discourses made them out to be....
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 18901930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechani...
Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the beautiful Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery during the Civil War, and after Emancipation. Written by the foremost black woman activist of the nineteenth century, the novel sheds light on the movements for abolition, public education, and voting rights.
Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the beautiful Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery during the Civil War, and after Emancipa...
In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming-of-age story, she insisted upon biographical accuracy and bold creativity telling the truth while giving herself and others fictionalized names. She also adapted conventions from other popular genres, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative. Then, despite facing obstacles not encountered by Black men and white women, she orchestrated the book's publication and became a traveling bookseller in an effort to inspire passive Americans to...
In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming...
