The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840 by Shelby Johnson (review).
The main focus of "The Rich Earth Between Us" is the critique of colonial land dispossession and enslavement by Black and Indigenous authors from 1770 to 1840, as articulated through their literary works. Shelby Johnson examines how figures such as Robert Wedderburn, Samson Occom, Mary Prince, and W...
| Published in: | Early American Literature Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 505 - 510 |
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University of North Carolina Press
2025
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