This provocative book draws from a variety of sources—literature, politics, folklore, social history—to attempt to set Southern beliefs about violence in a

During the sixty years preceding the Civil War, violent means were often used to combat slavery in the United States. In this collection of essays, ten scholars

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existe

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody hist