Sites of slavery
Subtitle: citizenship and racial democracy in the post-civil rights imagination
By: Salamishah Margaret Tillet
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780822352426; 9780822352617
Subjects: Race relations; Memory; African Americans; Slavery; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sites of slavery; title: Freedom in a bondsmaid's arms : Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the persistence of African-American memory; title: The milder and more amusing phases of slavery : Uncle Tom's cabin and black satire; title: A race of angels : (trans) nationalism, African-American tourism, and the slave forts; title: What have we done to weigh so little on their scale : African American reparations and the moral economy of memory; title: Epilogue the president's house, freedom, and slavery in the age of Obama