1st Edition
Race Matters, Animal Matters Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
Table of Contents
Introduction. Fugitive Humanism in African America
Chapter 1. Scenes of Slave Breaking and Making in Moses Roper’s and Frederick Douglass’ Slave Narratives
Chapter 2. "To Admit All Cattle without Distinction": Reconstructing Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City Slaughterhouse
Chapter 3. Strange Fruits: Conjure, Slaughter, and The Politics of Disembodiment in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman and Related Tales
Chapter 4. Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Hunting and Domestication in Spectacle Lynchings
Chapter 5. Interspecies Welfare and Justice: Animal Welfare and the Anti-Lynching Movement
Epilogue. Sanctuary and Asylum
Biography
Lindgren Johnson is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, USA.
