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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Underscoring the enslaved men's relationships, however, were the sex-segregated work gangs on the plantations, which further reinforced their social bonds. Lussana also addresses male resistance to slavery by shifting attention from the visible, organized world of slave rebellion to the private realms of enslaved men's lives.

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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.

Product details

• Authors: Sergio Lussana, Sergio A Lussana, Sergio A. Lussana
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2016
• EAN: 9780813166940
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6694-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: New Directions in Southern His; New Directions in Southern History; New Directions in Southern His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories