{"product_id":"bound-to-respect-keith-michael-green-9780817318833","title":"Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816-1861","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816-1861\u003c\/i\u003e, Keith Michael Green examines key texts that illuminate forms of black bondage and captivity that existed within and alongside slavery. In doing so, he restores to antebellum African American autobiographical writing the fascinating heterogeneity lost if the historical experiences of African Americans are attributed to slavery alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book's title is taken from the assertion by US Supreme Court chief justice Roger B. Taney in his 1857 Dred Scott decision that blacks had no rights that whites were \"bound to respect.\" This allusion highlights Green's critical assertion that the dehumanizing absurdities to which defenders of slavery resorted to justify slavery only brought into more stark relief the humanity of African Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gifted storyteller, Green examines four forms of captivity: incarceration, enslavement to Native Americans, child indentured servitude, and maritime capture. By illuminating this dense penumbra of captivity beyond the strict definitions of slavery, he presents a fluid and holistic network of images, vocabulary, narratives, and history. By demonstrating how these additional forms of confinement flourished in the era of slavery, Green shows how they persisted beyond emancipation, in such a way that freed slaves did not in fact partake of \"freedom\" as white Americans understood it. This gap in understanding continues to bedevil contemporary American society, and Green deftly draws persuasive connections between past and present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vital and convincing offering to readers of literary criticism, African American studies, and American history, Green's \u003ci\u003eBound to Respect\u003c\/i\u003e brings fresh and nuanced insights to this fundamental chapter in the American story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Michael Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817318836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817318833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016","brand":"Keith Michael Green","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096754364671,"sku":"9780817318833","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bound-to-respect-keith-michael-green-9780817318833","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}