What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family

by Brenda E. Stevenson

The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442252162
• ISBN13: 9781442252165
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"