My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South - Hardcover

by Sergio A. Lussana (Author)

Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days. In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation of the social dynamics between enslaved men and examines how individuals living under the conditions of bondage negotiated masculine identities. He demonstrates that African American men worked to c

Author Biography

Sergio A. Lussana is senior lecturer of history at Nottingham Trent University and is coeditor of Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800--2000.