Book Review: Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan

Abstract

ilies despite the ongoing dehumanizing and persecutory context of the post-emancipation era. Given the book’s intended focus on the “Long Nineteenth Century,” Hilde could have devoted more attention to fatherhood in the postbellum period rather than in just her final two chapters. Nevertheless, Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century is a well-researched and vital contribution to the field which convincingly demonstrates the “quietly heroic efforts of African American men as fathers” (281).