A Post-Emancipation Fiction of Black Imperial Masculinity: John Briggs's The History of Jim Crow (1839).
Although forgotten today, The History of Jim Crow (1839) is a singular Victorian literary effort to defend Black masculinity against denigrating 'Jim Crow' caricature. The novel's author, Major General John Briggs (1785–1875; service, 1801–1835), was a British Indian solider and civil servant who, a...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 381 - 398 |
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Jun2026
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