Survivors Of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives

Through storytelling and firsthand testimony, this anthology shapes a twenty-first-century narrative that many believe died with the end of slavery in the Americas. Organized around such issues as the need for work, the punishment of defiance, and the move toward activism, the collection isolates the causes, mechanisms, and responses to slavery that allow the phenomenon to endure. Enhancing scholarship in women's studies, sociology, criminology, law, social work, and literary studies, the text establishes a common trajectory of vulnerability, enslavement, captivity, escape, and recovery...--www.Amazon.com.

• | Author: Laura T. Murphy
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 25, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0231164238
• | ISBN-13: 9780231164238