The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America by Terri L. Snyder

The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Terri L. Snyder

256 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, the...

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