Decades of research and scholarship around New World slavery limit the scope of the actions of the enslaved to political resistance while seeking only one goal: freedom.
But what if Black life went beyond just the pursuit of liberty in order to encompass broader meaning through creative expression, spirituality, and self-awareness? Dr. Christopher Freeburg joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss these ideas through his latest book, Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death published by Duke University Press
Leave a Reply