Everyday Black Living in Early America
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 28, 2024
In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also brought pleasure.
Tara Bynum, an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Iowa, tells the compelling stories of four early American writers who expressed feeling good despite living while enslaved or only nominally free . . .
