Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

by Celeste-Marie Bernier

Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women--Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman--challenged the dominant conceptualizations of their histories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813933242
• ISBN13: 9780813933245
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher