Shades of Green offers a creative reimagining of early and antebellum American literary culture by exploring the complex web of relationships linking racial thought to natural science and natural imag
As head the Philadelphia-based General Vigilance Committee formed in 1852 to assist runaway slaves, Still (1821-1902) kept a detailed journal of stories he heard from fugitive slaves he helped conduct
A collection of narratives from escaped North Carolina slaves offers readers a window into these personal accounts of life in bondage that inflamed Northern sentiments against slavery.