"The strangest freaks of despotism": Queer sexuality in Antebellum African American slave narratives

African American Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-237

  Abdur Rahman, Aliyyah I ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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