Yuletide in Dixie Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory |
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| Author:
| May, Robert E. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4214-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday.
How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday.