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What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family

Brenda E. Stevenson

In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publish Date: Apr 21st, 2023
  • Pages: 440
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.06in - 6.06in - 1.34in - 1.45lb
  • EAN: 9781442252165
  • Categories: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)African American & BlackUnited States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

About the Author

Brenda E. Stevenson is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at Oxford and the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair of History at UCLA. Her previous works include What is Slavery? and the prize-winning monographs Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots.