Crystal Simone Smith

Runagate

Songs of the Freedom Bound

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Produktbeschreibung

Crystal Simone Smith’s new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, stories, and fugitive runaway ads.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028581
• ISBN-10: 1478028580
• Artikelnr.: 71884807

Autorenporträt

Crystal Simone Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Ce Rosenow  xiii
Prefatory Note  xix
Prologue. Runagate: What to the Slave Is the Semiquincentennial?  1
Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating People
Haiku Sequences
Henry & Maria  5
Jemmy  7
Lucy  9
Asko or Glasgow  11
Clinton  13
Jack (and Paul)  15
Peter  17
Dave  19
Grace (and Tom)  21
Mariah Frances  23
Peggy  25
John Bull  27
Austin  29
Ely or July  31
Robbin  33
Sam  35
Anderson  37
Emily  39
Harriett, Bella, Elsey, and Milly  41
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, Part 1
Tanka
hard worked days  44
one pair of shoes  45
we spent nights  46
for breaking dishes  47
oh my brother’s  48
dead slave woman  49
the worst sales—  50
hit in the head  51
our mama cooked  52
Mistress Mary was kind  53
I was awakened  54
day the Yankees came  55
I had sixteen children  56
Smithfield slave market  57
allowed no pleasures  58
Master made me go  59
we worked winter  60
Christmas Eve  61
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, Part 2
Tanka Sequences
Ain’t You My Child  64
After the Stars Fell  66
Confederate Lieutenant Robert Walsh  68
Joe High  69
Sarah Anne Green  70
Essex Henry  72
Epilogue. Haibun for Ancestor Ernestine Turner (b. 1827)  75
Acknowledgments  77
Freedom on the Move: A Note  79