It's the UN's Intl Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery & the Transatlantic Slave Trade and we remember the horrors of #Slavery w a #bookstack feat:
P Everett "James"
K Ross "Slavery, surveillance & genre in Antebellum US literature"
& W H Chafe "Lifting the Chains"
As this is also the big #JaneAustenYear, here are 2 books on #JaneAusten & #Abolition of #Slavery
Margie Burns on "Jane Austen, Abolitionist" & the Abolitionist meaning of the phrase #Pride&Prejudice
& Gabrielle D V White "Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition"
Intrigued? Read more about Margie Burns's research here in her piece at @uk.theconversation.com https://theconversation.com/from-pulpits-to-protest-the-surprising-history-of-the-phrase-pride-and-prejudice-249836?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
Find the books here:
Percival Everett "James" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1851989072
Kelly Ross "Slavery, surveillance, and genre in Antebellum United States literature" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1832207757
William H. Chafe "Lifting the Chains" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837562423
Margie Burns "Jane Austen, Abolitionist" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1892986256
Gabrielle D V White "Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=484323156