Book

Mastering Emotions

Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States

Erin Austin Dwyer

2021

University of Pennsylvania Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Illustrations from Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup, 1853, depicting an African American man hugging his family.

A Dark Cloud over Enjoyment

Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.

by Erin Austin Dwyer via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 7, 2021

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