how an enslaved person like Phillis Wheatley confronted her legal status in verse and how an antebellum activist like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voiced her own passionate resistance to slavery
Perry draws upon the ideas of figures such as James Baldwin
the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home
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the businessman who helped him bridge the gap between his American upbringing and his Nigerian heritage
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry Cultural how an enslaved person likeGroundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their livesincluding preconception, infancy, childhood,