Carefully documenting African American slave foods, this book reveals that slaves actively developed their own foodways-their customs involving family and food.

Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking

Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consu

I was born in Virginia, in 1832, near Charlottesville, in the beautiful valley of the Rivanna river. My father was a white man and my mother a negress, the slav