A Terrible Intimacy

Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South

by Melvin Patrick Ely

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Reviews

  • New York Review of Books · 17 Sept 2026

    The Slave’s Power

    Two recent books employ inventive approaches to read against the grain of the archive of slavery produced by those who built and benefited from it.

    Drew Gilpin Faust

    Also reviews Moving Toward Freedom by Susan Eva O’Donovan