Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Are you men?'; 1. 'If I had my life to live over, I would die fighting rather than be a slave again': resistance, manhood, and survival in slavery; 2. 'The best amongst them was picked for that job': authority, discipline, and masculinity; 3. 'I never seen such a worker as my father': work, industry, and masculinity; 4. 'He am big and 'cause he so he think everybody do what him say': manhood, sex, and power; 5. "The best man whipped and the other one took it": violence, leisure, and masculinity; Conclusion: contesting slave masculinity; Bibliography; Index.

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