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From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the
US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By
amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody
Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only
participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in
fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized
toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed
for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their
owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal
contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were
carefully pre-meditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their
enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary,
and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling,
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge presents a window into the lives and
philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about
justice and how to achieve it.
In pursuit of his foremost goal, full and equal citizenship for
African Americans, Peter Humphries Clark (1829--1925) defied easy
classification. He was, at various times, the country's first black
socialist, a loyal supporter of the Republican Party, and an
advocate for the Democrats. A pioneer educational activist, Clark
led the fight for African Americans' access to Ohio's public
schools and became the first black principal in the state. He
supported all-black schools and staunchly defended them even after
the tide turned toward desegregation. As a politician,
intellectual, educator, and activist, Clark was complex and
enigmatic. Though Clark influenced a generation of abolitionists
and civil rights activists, he is virtually forgotten today.
America's First Black Socialist draws upon speeches,
correspondence, and outside commentary to provide a balanced
account of this neglected and misunderstood figure. Charting
Clark's changing allegiances and ideologies from the antebellum era
through the 1920s, this comprehensive biography illuminates the
life and legacy of an important activist while also highlighting
the black radical tradition that helped democratize America.
Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with
capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler
daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has
inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel
starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Yet, her life has defied
solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness, Nikki M.
Taylor brilliantly captures her circumstances and her
transformation from a murdering mother to an icon of tragedy and
resistance. Taylor, the first African American woman to write a
history of Garner, grounds her approach in black feminist theory.
She melds history with trauma studies to account for shortcomings
in the written record. In so doing, she rejects distortions and
fictionalized images; probes slavery's legacies of sexual and
physical violence and psychic trauma in new ways; and finally
fleshes out a figure who had been rendered an apparition.
Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with
capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler
daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has
inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel
starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Yet, her life has defied
solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness, Nikki M.
Taylor brilliantly captures her circumstances and her
transformation from a murdering mother to an icon of tragedy and
resistance. Taylor, the first African American woman to write a
history of Garner, grounds her approach in black feminist theory.
She melds history with trauma studies to account for shortcomings
in the written record. In so doing, she rejects distortions and
fictionalized images; probes slavery's legacies of sexual and
physical violence and psychic trauma in new ways; and finally
fleshes out a figure who had been rendered an apparition.
NlNETEENTH-CENTURY CINCINNATI was northern in its geography,
southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial
aspirations. While those identities presented a crossroad of
opportunity for native whites and immigrants, African Americans
endured economic repression and a denial of civil rights,
compounded by extreme and frequent mob violence. No other northern
city rivaled Cincinnati's vicious mob spirit. Frontiers of Freedom
follows the black community as it moved from alienation and
vulnerability in the 1820s toward collective consciousness and,
eventually, political self-respect and self-determination. As
author Nikki M. Taylor points out, this was a community that at
times supported all-black communities, armed self-defense, and
separate, but independent, black schools. Black Cincinnati's
strategies to gain equality and citizenship were as dynamic as they
were effective. When the black community united in armed defense of
its homes and property during an 1841 mob attack, it demonstrated
that it was no longer willing to be exiled from the city as it had
been in 1829. Frontiers of Freedom chronicles alternating moments
of triumph and tribulation, of pride and pain; but more than
anything, it chronicles the resilience of the black community in a
particularly difficult urban context at a defining moment in
American history.
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