Mastering Slavery Myths he knew he couldn't give

he knew he couldn't give up

And it offers her unique take on her birthplace

Jack Balkin

In response to the riots of the mid-‘60s

Mastering Slavery Myths he knew he couldn't giveIn Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of