My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South

Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days. In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation of the social dynamics between enslaved men and examines how individuals living under the conditions of bondage negotiated masculine identities. He demonstrates that African American men worked to c

Author: Sergio A. Lussana
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/20/2016
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780813166940

About the Author

Sergio A. Lussana is senior lecturer of history at Nottingham Trent University and is coeditor of Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800--2000.

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