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

by Sergio Lussana

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813166942
• ISBN13: 9780813166940
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"