(Slavery & Abolition, 2021-11-25) Benjamin Golden, Kathryn
A Weary Land is a ‘bottom-up study’ of slavery in Arkansas that attempts to ‘resolve the need for a broad and in-depth look at the experience of black enslavement on the ground’ (p. 4–5). It is the first book to comprehensively approach the rise and fall of slavery in Arkansas since Orville Taylor's (1958). But what separates A Weary Land from this earlier study is Jones’ commitment to exploring enslaved people's lived experiences as labourers, as communities constantly negotiating between accommodation and resistance, and ultimately, as survivors through their own determinations of freedom.
