Slave In A Box
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Slave In A Box
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Author : M. M. Manring
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1998
Slave In A Box written by M. M. Manring and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social phenomena, including racial oppression and class identity. In the early twentieth century, the mammy became immortalized as Aunt Jemima, the spokesperson for a line of ready-mixed breakfast products. Although Aunt Jemima has undergone many makeovers over the years, she apparently has not lost her commercial appeal; her face graces more than forty food products nationwide and she still resonates in some form for millions of Americans. In Slave in a Box, M.M. Manring addresses the vexing question of why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. Manring traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in the Old South slave reality and mythology, through reinterpretations during Reconstruction and in minstrel shows and turn-of-the-century advertisements, to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement and her present incarnation as a "working grandmother." We learn how advertising entrepreneur James Webb Young, aided by celebrated illustrator N.C. Wyeth, skillfully tapped into nostalgic 1920s perceptions of the South as a culture of white leisure and black labor. Aunt Jemima's ready-mixed products offered middle-class housewives the next best thing to a black servant: a "slave in a box" that conjured up romantic images of not only the food but also the social hierarchy of the plantation South. The initial success of the Aunt Jemima brand, Manring reveals, was based on a variety of factors, from lingering attempts to reunite the country after the Civil War to marketing strategies around World War I. Her continued appeal in the late twentieth century is a more complex and disturbing phenomenon we may never fully understand. Manring suggests that by documenting Aunt Jemima's fascinating evolution, however, we can learn important lessons about our collective cultural identity.
Man In A Box
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Author : Katherine Follett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Man In A Box written by Katherine Follett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with African Americans categories.
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown
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Author : Henry Box Brown
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown written by Henry Box Brown and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with History categories.
After more than 30 years of slavery, Henry "Box" Brown managed to have himself nailed inside a packing crate and shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. This important memoir recounts his daring and successful bid for freedom. "Just as relevant now as it was 150 years ago." — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry S Freedom Box
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Author : Ellen Levine
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Henry S Freedom Box written by Ellen Levine and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown Written By Himself
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Author : Henry Box Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown Written By Himself written by Henry Box Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with African Americans categories.
This unique first-hand account of a life in slavery by Henry Box Brown, demonstrates how slavery was unbearable even under the best of conditions. Brown was born a slave in 1816 in Louisa County, Virginia and lived there for thirty-three years. After a childhood of relative ease, he was bequeathed to his master's son, who sent him to work in his tobacco factory under the authority of an unfair, hypocritical overseer. Although his experiences in slavery were comparatively mild, and he was not subjected to physical violence, Brown was not content to be a slave and thus decided to escape. He had himself sealed in a small wooden box and shipped to friends in Philadelphia. His narrative as told to Charles Stearns, was published in 1849 to raise funds so he could purchase freedom for his wife and children.
Narrative Of Henry Box Brown Who Escaped From Slavery Enclosed In A Box 3 Feet Long And 2 Wide
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Author : Henry Box Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Narrative Of Henry Box Brown Who Escaped From Slavery Enclosed In A Box 3 Feet Long And 2 Wide written by Henry Box Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Slavery categories.
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown Written By Himself
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Author : John Ernest
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-11-30
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown Written By Himself written by John Ernest and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-30 with Social Science categories.
It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.
Box
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Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Box written by Carole Boston Weatherford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with JUVENILE NONFICTION categories.
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground Railroad. Escape! The author, in poems, narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
Clinging To Mammy
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Author : Micki McElya
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-31
Clinging To Mammy written by Micki McElya and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-31 with Social Science categories.
When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassured by her broad smile that she and her product were dependable. She was everyone's mammy, the faithful slave who was content to cook and care for whites, no matter how grueling the labor, because she loved them. This far-reaching image of the nurturing black mother exercises a tenacious hold on the American imagination. Micki McElya examines why we cling to mammy. She argues that the figure of the loyal slave has played a powerful role in modern American politics and culture. Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black people's contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. African American resistance to this notion was varied but often placed new constraints on black women. McElya's stories of faithful slaves expose the power and reach of the myth, not only in popular advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, white women's minstrelsy, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement. The color line and the vision of interracial motherly affection that helped maintain it have persisted into the twenty-first century. If we are to reckon with the continuing legacy of slavery in the United States, McElya argues, we must confront the depths of our desire for mammy and recognize its full racial implications.
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown 1851
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Author : Henry Box Brown
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Narrative Of The Life Of Henry Box Brown 1851 written by Henry Box Brown and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.