Description: "In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865, Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free Blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance, from Spanish colonial rule (1779-1795), through American acquisition (1795) and eventual statehood (established in 1817), and finally to slavery's legal demise in 1865"--
Brief description: NIK RIBIANSZKY is a lecturer in history at Queen's University, Belfast. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of Mississippi History.
Review Quotes: Generations of Freedom offers insights into the structural barriers defining the African American experience.--Jay Weiner "The Clarion-Ledger"