"This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the family li

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institut

Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking