Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century
Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century
Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century
Description
Description
Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black prison writing from 1795 to 1901.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Stone transforms our understanding of the prisoner as intellectuals and thought leaders."--Jodi Schorb, author of Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845
"Provides a bracing history of the criminalization of Black people while underscoring the strong connections between Black incarceration and the development of Black thought and knowledge."--Robert S. Levine, author of Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
University Press of Florida
Pub date:
2025-01-14
Length:
218 pages
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