Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory

by Robert E May

Book Overview

How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813945100
• ISBN13: 9780813945101
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher