A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones, Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 2021, 280 pp., $60 (hbk), ISBN 9780820360201
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2021-11-25
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Slavery & Abolition
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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.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Slavery & Abolition on 11/25/2021, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0144039X.2021.1988328. This article will be embargoed until 5/25/2023.
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Kathryn Benjamin Golden (2021) A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas, Slavery & Abolition, 42:4, 981-983, DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2021.1988328