Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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"Rejecting a narrative in which the trajectory from slavery to freedom involves a clean break and exclusive states, Hartman analyzes the dilemma of African Americans under freedom, in which individuals are burdened with an emancipation that is also a subordination and a probation."
Recommended by Samuel Otter, Professor of English and author of Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom.