The power to die

Acts of suicide by enslaved people carried significant cultural, legal, and political implications in the emerging slave societies of British America and, later, the United States. This study features a wide range of evidence from ship logs and surgeon's journals, legal and legislative records, newspapers, periodicals, novels, and plays, abolitionist print and slave narratives in order to consider the intimate circumstances, cultural meanings, and political consequences of enslaved peoples' acts of self-destruction in the context of early American slavery.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

255

ISBN

9780226280738

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata