Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery PlantationUNC Press Books, 2007 - 226 pages Adams explores how the commodification of black bodies during slavery did not disappear with abolition--rather, the same principle was transformed into modern consumer capitalism. From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans |
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