No words of their own

The Anthropology of Slavery: the Womb of Iron and Gold. CLAUDE MEILLASSOUX, translated by Alide Dasnois. London: The Athlone Press and Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1991. 421pp.     

Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. x, 575pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2238–8.

Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Judith Kelleher Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1994. xix, 389pp. $32.95. ISBN: 0–8071–1845–1.     

Notes of a serf woman by M. E. Vasilieva

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Series 1, Volume II, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Edited by IRA BERLIN. STEVEN F. MILLER, JOSEPH P. REIDY and LESLIE S. ROWLAND. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. xxxvii, 776pp. £60.00 and $79.95. ISBN 0–521–41742–2.

Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti‐Slavery Society. DEBRA GOLD HANSEN. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1993. ix, 231pp. £28.50. ISBN 0–87023–848–5

John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography. JOHN NIVEN. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1988. xvi, 367 pp. $12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8071–1858–3.

Thackeray and Slavery. DEBORAH A. THOMAS. Athens: Ohio University Press. 1993. xvii, 245pp. £44. ISBN 0–8214–1038–5.

Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Edited by MARTIN A. KLEIN. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xiv, 220 pp. $40 and $14.95. ISBN 0–299–13750–3 and 0–299–13754–6.

Islanders in the Stream. A History of the Bahamian People. Volume One. From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery. MICHEAL CRATON AND GAIL SAUNDERS. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press. 1992. xxiii, 455 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8203–1382–3.

Victor Schoelcher et l'abolition de l'esclavage, NELLY SCHMINDT. Paris: Fayard, 1994. 440 pp. 150FF. ISBN 2–213–03058–8.     

Book reviews

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Ira Berlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. x, 497pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–674–81092–9.

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xi, 341 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–253–21043–7.

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Seymour drescher. Foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. London: Macmillan. 1999. xxv, 454pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–333–73748–2.

Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv. 301pp. £23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–80143179–4.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. 269pp. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–674–74711–9.

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. xi, 562pp. £45.90. ISBN 0–8071–2133–9.

Frccdpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina press. 1999. xv, 345 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2460–7; 0–8078–4763–1.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. Barry A. Crouch. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press. 1999. xix, 187pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–71219–7.

Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912. B.W. Higman. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. 1998. xv, 384pp. £20.00/$35.00. ISBN 976–640–039–3.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Gainsville: University of Florida Press. 1998. xii, 275pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8130–1625–8.

Writing West Indian Histories. B.W. Higman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1999. xiv, 289 pp. £15.50 (paper). ISBN 0–333–73296–0.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Tom Brass and Marcel Van Der Linden. Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 1997 (International and Comparative Social History 5). 602 pp. £52.00. ISBN 3–906756–87–4.

Servicing the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan, 1999. xix, 166pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–333–75477–8.

Servants of Allah. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press. 1998. vii, 254 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0–8147–1905–8     

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex,race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 19S9, xx, 282 pp. $35.00.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein. Chapel Hill &; London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. vii, 331 pp. $34.95.

Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By Jean Fagan Yellin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. ix, 226 pp. £20.00/$29.95.

Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Lengougeon. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1990. xiii, 408 pp. $45.00.

Race and Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Madison: Madison House, 1990. 212pp. $27.95.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xl, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement 1860–1870. By Victor B. Howard. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 297 pp. $32.00.

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. By Willard B. Gatewood. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990. cii; 450 pp. $39.95.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv, 353pp.

Indenture and Exile: The Indo‐Caribbean Experience. Edited by Frank Birbal‐Singh. Tsar, Toronto, 1989. 264 pp. £10.00.     

The Oxford Handbook's Capacious Atlantic

Questioning Slavery. James Walvin. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xi, 202pp. £45.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–415–15356–5; 0–415–15357–3.

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. xiii, 262pp. £29.50; £00.00. ISBN 0–253–33247–8; 0–253–21086–0.

Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Charles E. Heller. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. 1996. xii, 248 pp. £47.95. ISBN 0–3132–9863–7.

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian. Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 312 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–8078–2335‐X.

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 396pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2319–8.

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 330pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2326–0.

Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Leiden: Kitlv Press. 1995. viii, 272pp. £45.00. ISBN 90–6718–096–3.

’There Are No Slaves In France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime. Sue Peabody. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. x, 210pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–510198–7.     

Emancipation studies: The demise of slavery in Pennsylvania and New York

Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. By GARY B. NASH and JEAN R. SODERLUND. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. £20.

Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New YorkCity, 1770–1810. By SHANE WHITE. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xviii, 278 pp. $35.     

The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia)

Testing the Chains, Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1982. 389pp. £27.90.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Series II. The Black Military Experience ed. Ira Berlin, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. xxx+ 852 pp. £37.50.

Slavery and Freedom (expanded edition, ed. by William W. Freehling). Willie Lee Rose. New York: Oxford University Press. 1982. xi, 254pp. £6.95.

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. Catherine Clinton. New York: Pantheon. 1982. xix + 331pp. $19.95.

Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. Lawrence J. Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. xi + 344 pp. £20.00.

Immigrants, Minorities and Race Relations: A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Presented at British and Irish Universities, 1900–1981. Victor F. Gilbert and Darshan Singh Tatla. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1984. xxxiii, 153 pp. £13.50.     

Race and economics in Nineteenth‐century Georgia

From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. JOSEPH P. REIDY. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xiv+360pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–8078–2061‐X.

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. EDMOND L. DRAGO. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c1982, 1992. xxii+211pp. $16.95. ISBN 0–8203–1438–2.     

Review essay: Slavery in Africa

The Ideology of Slavery in Africa. Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1981. 311pp.

Transformations in slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge University Press, 1983. xvi + 347pp. Bibl., Index.     

Book reviews

’Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction’: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. Midori Takagi. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xi, 187 pp. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8139–1834–0.

Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Barbara J. Heath. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 1999. x, 81 pp. $12.50 (paper). ISBN 0–8139–1867–7.

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ‘Race’ in New England, 1780–1860. Joannk Pope Melish. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvii, 296 pp. £26.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8014–3413–0.

American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. Audrey A. Fisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x, 139pp. £35.00/$59.95. (cloth). ISBN 0–521–66026–2.

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1618–1782. Virginia Bernhard. Columbia. Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1999. xviii, 316pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–8262–1227–1.

Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society. Hilary McD. Becklks. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers; Oxford: James Currey Publishers. 1999. xxv, 211 pp. £15.95 (paper). ISBN: 976–8123–78–8.

Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833–1874. Christopher Schmidt‐Nowara. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. xiii, 239 pp. $50.00(cloth). ISBN 0–8229–4089–2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0–8229–5690 X.

Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth‐Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Teresita MartíNez‐Vergne. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1999. xv, 235 pp. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–292–75220–2; $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–75221–0.

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin Yelvington. Kingston and Gainesville: The Press, University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida. 1999. xxiii, 319 pp. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–8130–1696–7; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 976–640–030‐X.     

Value added

Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy, by Peter Frumkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 458 pp., $39.00 cloth.     

Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Stephan Palmié (ed.). Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995. xlvii, 283pp. $35.00. ISBN 087049–903–3.

Carnival. Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv, 293pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–48138–4.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Roderick a. McDonald (ed.). Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1996. xvi, 388pp. £14.00 (paperback). ISBN 976–640–022–9.

L'Engrenage de la Liberté: Caraïbes ‐ XIXe siècle, Nelly Schmidt. Aix‐en‐Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence. 1995. 360pp. 250FF. ISBN 2–85399–359–0.

Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Suzanne Schwarz (ed.). Wrexham: Bridge Books. 1995. 164pp. £8.95. ISBN 1–872424–42–2. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster. Melinda Elder. Halifax: Ryburn Publishing. 1992. 232pp. £25. ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. xiv, 556pp. £40.00.

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery, Kate E.R. Pickard. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1995. xv, 103, 409 pp. £14.00. ISBN 0–8032–9233–3.

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. van Horne (eds.). Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, in co‐operation with the Library Company of Philadelphia. 1994. xviii, 363pp.

’what nature suffers to groe’: Life, labor and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680–1920. Mart A. Stewart. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370pp. $45. ISBN 0–8203–1808–6.

Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective, Celia M. Azevedo. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1995. xxvi, 200pp. ISBN 0–8153–2332–8.     

Toward a New Mississippi history

Political Culture in the Nineteenth‐Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. BRADLEY G. BOND. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1995. 342 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–807–1976–8.

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860. CHRISTOPHER MORRIS. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. 258 pp., notes, illustrations, appendices, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–19–508366–0.

"Worse than Slavery:”; Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. DAVID M. OSHINSKY. New York: Free Press. 1996. 306 pp., notes, illustrations, index. $25.00.

Mississippi: An American Journey. ANTHONY WALTON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. 279 pp., illustrations. $24.00.     

Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Peter Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv, 246pp. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–58429–9.

The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 1. Edited by Robin Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. 1997. xix, 363pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi, 390pp. £22.50/US$29.95. ISBN 0–521–58455–8.

Liberating the Family. Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Pamela Scully. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Oxford: James Currey. xiii, 210, index, map. £40 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–85255–678–0; 0–85255–628–4.

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1996. xii, 383pp. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1428‐X.

Dictionary of Afro‐American Slavery. Updated with a New Introduction and Bibliography. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xix, 892pp. £27.95 (paper). ISBN 0–275–95799–3.

Masters, Slaves, &; Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. Robert Olwell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvi, 294pp. £38.95 (cloth); £13.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–3488–3; 0–8014–8491‐X.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers. Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi, 185pp. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7656–0112–5; 0–7656–0113–3.

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii, 387pp. £31.50. ISBN: 0–8078–2446–1.

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Paul Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. xxi, 303pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20794–7.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836–1948. David Delaney. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1998. x, 229pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–7–1596‐X; 0–292–71597–8.     

The Movement Of People And The Adoption Of Other Cultures: the neodiffusionism of Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza

ROXANA WATERSON The living house: an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia. Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1990. xix, 263pp., bibliography, colour plates, figures, index, maps. $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 588941 X.

BARRETT L. McCORMICK Political reform in post-Mao China: democracy and bureaucracy in a Leninist state. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990. xiii, 222pp., select bibliography, index. US$34.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 520 06765 7.

UNNI WIKAN Behind the veil in Arabia: women in Oman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. xiii, 314 pp., illustrations, appendix, references, index. US$14.95 (paper) ISBN 0 226 89683 8.

JANA SAWTCKI Disciplining Foucault: feminism, power and the body. New York &; London: Routiedge. 1991. xiii, 130pp., notes, index. $25.95 (paper) ISBN 0 415 90188 X.

LAMONT LINDSTROM Knowledge and power in a South Pacific society (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. xvi, 224pp., references, index. US$29.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 87474 365 6; US$16.95 (paper) ISBN 0 87474 357 5.

MICHAEL J. LEAHY Explorations into highland New Guinea 1930-1935 (edited by Douglas E. Jones and with a foreword by Jane C. Goodale). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1991. xiii, 254pp., plates, index. US$19.95 (paper) ISBN 0 8173 0446 0.

EDWARD L. SCHIEFFLIN and ROBERT CRITTENDEN (with contributions by Bryant Allan et al.) Like people you see in a dream: first contact in six Papuan societies. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991. xviii, 325pp., notes, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $39.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 08047 1662 5; $12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 08047 1899 7.

MARION MELK-KOCH Auf der Suche nach der menschlichen Gesellschaft: Richard Thurnwald. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 1989. 352pp., maps, plates, bibliography. DM68 (hardback) ISBN 3 496 003276 6.

JOHN CONNELL and RICHARD HOWITT (eds) Mining and indigenous peoples in Australasia. Sydney: Sydney University Press in association with Oxford University Press. 1991. x, 205pp., maps, figures, tables, references, index. $22.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 424 00177 2.

L.M. ALLEN, J.C. ALTMAN and E. OWEN (with assistance from W.S. Arthur) Aborigines in the economy: a select annotated bibliography of policy-relevant research 1985-90. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (Research Monograph No. 1). xxii, pp.242, appendixes, indexes. $20.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 7315 1199 9.

EDWARD SAPIR The collected works of Edward Sapir, Vol. 5: American Indian languages, 1 (volume editor William Bright). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 584pp., plate, map, appendix, references. DM220 or US$99 (bound) ISBN 3 11 012327 4.

DICK GEERAERTS (editor-in-chief) Cognitive Linguistics Volume 1(1). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 174pp., DM42 (single issue, paper) DM154 (4 issues) ISSN 0936 5907.

WILLIAM F. HANKS Referential practice: language and lived space among the Maya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1990. xxiii, 580pp., tables, plates, references, indexes. US$27.50 (paper) ISBN 0 226 31546 0; US$65 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 31545 2.     

‘To be Free is Very Sweet’

Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834. MOIRA FERGUSON. New York & London: Routledge, 1992. xiii, 465pp. £12.99. ISBN O‐415–90476–5.

The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. MOIRA FERGUSON. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ix, 214pp. £38.00. ISBN O‐8032–1984–9.     

Review essay: Between two wars: The rise and fall of Chattel Slavery in Georgia

Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750–1860. Julia Floyd Smith. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Clarence L. Mohr. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1986.     

Review essay: A world the slaves made

Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. CHARLES JOYNER. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, xxii, 345 pp. £27.50.