Andrew Sillen

Gebundenes Buch

Kidnapped at Sea

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

Beschreibung

The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave, happy and safe in servility.

Autor

Andrew Sillen is a visiting research scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He was formerly a professor of paleoanthropology and the founding director of development at the University of Cape Town and the vice president of institutional advancement at Brooklyn College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781421449517
• ISBN-10: 142144951X
• Artikelnr.: 70071801