Reviewed by Barbara Lewis | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.1

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Just below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and U.S. South. Edited by Jessica Adams, Michael Bibler, and Cécile Accilien. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Notes and index. $59.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

In Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which cast slavery's victims into iconic status, Cassy—the beautiful but older biracial concubine—outfoxes her master by escaping first to Canada and then Liberia. Feminist critics champion Cassy's ingenious getaway in the company of Emmeline, an ingenue slave who can pass for Spanish, but hardly note Cassy's heritage as a French-speaking Creole. Slaves did not just speak English, although that is the image usually presented. Roughly a century and a half after slavery's end, its repercussions are still socially and culturally evident, but the reach of the plantation economy is rarely connected across tongues in comprehensive outline. Just below South explores the wider span of plantation ideology as manifested in tourism through kinships expressed in drama, poetry, literature, dance, and popular reenactments of yesteryear such as Carnival.

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