Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816-1861

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature

Challenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipation

In Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861, Keith Michael Green examines key texts that illuminate forms of black bondage and captivity that existed within and alongside slavery. In...