AltWeeklies Wire
After 20 years, Atlanta's Kevin Young Publishes the Epic Ardencynew
Young's book of poems explores America through the voices of a slave ship Amistad's rebels.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
02-14-2011 |
Books
Eclipsing Slave History: 'Sugar of the Crop'new
Sana Butler set out to tell the stories of the children of slaves in America. Her book, however, is all about her, which is a shame.
Jackson Free Press |
Walter Biggins |
04-16-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Slavery by Another Name' Examines Post-Civil War Convict Labornew
Douglas Blackmon argues -- passionately, forcefully and convincingly -- that by any measure, blacks in the states of the former Confederacy saw their freedom so warped and constrained in the decades after the Civil War that the overwhelming majority were not in any meaningful way free.
The Texas Observer |
Todd Moye |
12-17-2008 |
Nonfiction
