Allison M. (omphaloskepsis) reviewed on 4/17/2011 + 37 more book reviews

A dangerous book, couched as it is in the rhetoric of revealing a forgotten history, but which relies on historical evidence created by the oppressors and agents of marginalization-- along with feigned empathetic but anachronistic emotive imaginings that fail to take into account contemporary critical scholarship on slavery as an institution and related perspectives on race as a political project.

Casper's book is appallingly naive in its romanticized prose treating on complicated and frequently violent histories.

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